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难听

nán tīng

HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word Traditional 難聽

难听 (nán tīng) means "unpleasant to hear; (of words) harsh". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 难听 means

1. unpleasant to hear
2. coarse
3. vulgar
4. offensive
5. shameful

The characters in 难听

• 难nándifficult (to...); problem; difficulty
• 听tīngto listen to; to hear; to heed; to obey; a can (loanword from English "tin")

Example sentences

• 钢琴走调了，音色很难听。
  Gāngqín zǒudiào le, yīnsè hěn nántīng.
  The piano was out of tune; it sounded very bad.

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