聽 (tīng)
to listen; to hear
How 聽 is written
- Strokes
- 22
- Radical
- 耳 — ear
- Traditional
- 聽
- Simplified
- 听
聽 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- tīng
- to listen; to hear; to obey; a can (loanword from English "tin")
- tìng
- to let; to allow
Common words using 聽
- 聽到 tīngdào
- to hear
- 傾聽 qīngtīng
- to listen attentively
- 動聽 dòngtīng
- pleasant to listen to
- 好聽 hǎotīng
- pleasant to hear
- 打聽 dǎting
- to ask about; to inquire about
- 接聽 jiētīng
- to answer the phone
- 收聽 shōutīng
- to listen (to); to listen (in)
- 竊聽 qiètīng
- to eavesdrop; to wiretap
- 聆聽 língtīng
- to listen (respectfully)
- 聽力 tīnglì
- hearing; listening ability
- 聽懂 tīngdǒng
- to understand (on hearing); to catch (what is spoken)
- 聽眾 tīngzhòng
- audience; listeners
聽 in a sentence
我喜歡一邊坐捷運，一邊聽音樂。
Wǒ xǐhuān yìbiān zuò jiéyùn, yìbiān tīng yīnyuè.
“I like listening to music while riding the MRT.”
How common is 聽?
聽 is the 285th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 63.5% of all running text.
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