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空耳

kōng ěr

2-character word

What 空耳 means

1. to intentionally reinterpret a spoken expression as if one had misheard it, for the sake of humor (often, it is a phrase in a foreign language twisted into a similar-sounding phrase in one's native language with a completely different meaning) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 空耳 "soramimi")

The characters in 空耳

• 空kōngempty; air; sky
• 耳ěrear; handle (archaeology); and that is all (Classical Chinese)

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