tīng

hear; understand; obey, comply

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DEFINITIONS

听 tīng
  • to listen
  • to hear
  • to obey
  • a can (loanword from English "tin")
  • classifier for canned beverages
听 tìng
  • (literary pronunciation, still advocated in Taiwan) to rule
  • to sentence
  • to allow
听 yǐn
  • smile (archaic)

STROKES

WORDS

nán tīng unpleasant to hear; coarse; vulgar; offensive; shameful
天由命 tīng tiān yóu mìng to submit to the will of heaven; to resign oneself to fate; to trust to luck
途说 dào tīng tú shuō gossip; hearsay; rumor
骇人闻 hài rén tīng wén shocking; horrifying; atrocious; terrible
筒 tīng tǒng telephone receiver; headphone; earphone; earpiece; stethoscope
器 zhù tīng qì hearing aid
之任之 tīng zhī rèn zhī to take a laissez-faire attitude
耸人闻 sǒng rén tīng wén to sensationalize (idiom); deliberate exaggeration to scare people
讲 tīng jiǎng to attend a lecture; to listen to a talk
课 tīng kè to attend a class; to go to a lecture
危言耸 wēi yán sǒng tīng frightening words to scare people (idiom); alarmist talk; reds under the beds
tàn tīng to make inquiries; to try to find out; to pry
诊器 tīng zhěn qì stethoscope
混淆视 hùn xiáo shì tīng to obscure the facts (idiom); to mislead the public with prevarication and deliberate falsehoods
不厌 bǎi tīng bù yàn worth hearing a hundred times
写 tīng xiě (of a pupil) to write down (in a dictation exercise); dictation; (music) to transcribe by ear
任 tīng rèn to let (sth happen); to allow (sb to do sth); to submit to; to yield
凭 tīng píng to allow (sb to do as he pleases)
zhōng tīng pleasant to hear (i.e. agreeable news); to one's liking; music to one's ears; Taiwan pr. [zhong4 ting1]
而不闻 tīng ér bù wén to hear but not react (idiom); to turn a deaf ear; to ignore deliberately
zhòng tīng hard of hearing
偏信 piān tīng piān xìn selective listening; to hear what one wants to hear
骨 tīng gǔ ossicles (in the middle ear); also written 聽小骨|听小骨
不问就不到假话 bù wèn jiù tīng bù dào jiǎ huà Don't ask and you won't be told any lies. (idiom)
命 bù tīng mìng to disobey