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聆听

líng tīng

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 聆聽

聆听 (líng tīng) means "to listen (respectfully)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 聆听 means

1. to listen (respectfully)

The characters in 聆听

• 聆líng(literary) to hear; to listen
• 听tīngto listen to; to hear; to heed; to obey; a can (loanword from English "tin")

Example sentences

• 不愿意聆听的人，才是真正的聋子。
  Bù yuànyì língtīng de rén, cái shì zhēnzhèng de lóngzi.
  There's no one more deaf than he who does not want to listen.
• 当一位女性在和你说话，要看着她的眼睛来聆听她的话。
  Dāng yī wèi nǚxìng zài hé nǐ shuōhuà, yàokàn zhe tā de yǎnjing lái língtīng tā dehuà.
  When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read líng tīng correctly.
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