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耳朵

ěr duo

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word Measure word 只、个、对

耳朵 (ěr duo) means "ear". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 耳朵 means

1. ear
2. handle (on a cup)

The characters in 耳朵

• 耳ěrear; handle (archaeology); and that is all (Classical Chinese)
• 朵duǒflower; earlobe; fig. item on both sides

Example sentences

• 我耳朵痒。
  I have an itch in my ear.
• 我长耳朵了。
  I have ears, you know.
• 我们用耳朵听。
  We hear with our ears.
• 竖起你的耳朵。
  Prick up your ears.
• 我竖起了耳朵听。
  Wǒ shùqǐ le ěrduo tīng.
  I pricked up my ears.
• 我们有两只耳朵。
  We have two ears.

Words starting with 耳朵

• 耳朵软ěr duo ruǎncredulous
• 耳朵眼儿ěr duo yǎn rearhole; ear piercing hole; earring hole

Words containing 耳朵

• 软耳朵ruǎn ěr duocredulous person; credulous
• 扇风耳朵shān fēng ěr duoprotruding ears
• 咬耳朵yǎo ěr duo(colloquial) to whisper in sb's ear
• 咬着耳朵yǎo zhe ěr duowhispering in sb's ear
• 竖起耳朵shù qǐ ěr duoto prick up one's ears; to strain to hear sth
• 耙耳朵pā ěr duo(dialect) henpecked; to be under one's wife's thumb

Where 耳朵 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Body Parts & Physical Description (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read ěr duo correctly.
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