(tīng) - to listen, to hear in Mandarin

tīng

Traditional: 聽

HSK 1

#97 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

to listen, to hear

Word origin

聽 (tīng) means 'to listen'. The traditional form combines 耳 (ear) and 王 on the left with 德/悳 (a heart-and-eye element) on the right, picturing attentive listening; the simplified 听 uses 口 (mouth) with 斤 as phonetic.

Origin: compound
Root: 耳 (ear) + an attentiveness element (traditional 聽)

Stroke order

听

Examples

？

Did you hear that?

。

I like listening to music.

。

Please hear me out.

仔zǎi细xì。

Please listen to me carefully.

。

He is listening to the radio.

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Appears in 3 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 听.

听到tīng dàoto hear, to catch (a sound)听说tīng shuōto hear that, I heard that 听见tīng jiànhear, catch sound of

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This word is part of lesson 2.