聽

See also 听, and 聴

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 𡈼 + semantic 耳 (“ear”) + semantic 㥁

Han character

聽 (radical 128 耳+16, 22 strokes, cangjie input 尸土十田心 (SGJWP), four-corner 1413₁)

1. hear, listen
2. understand
3. obey

Usage notes

• 耳王十四一心 is a method used to remember this character, based on the order of the strokes.

References

• KangXi: page 970, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29211
• Dae Jaweon: page 1422, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2799, character 14
• Unihan data for U+807D

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Cantonese

Hanzi

聽 (jyutping teng1, Yale teng1, ting1)

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Japanese

Kanji

聽

Readings

• On: ちょう (chō), てい (tei)
• Kun: きく (kiku), ゆるす (yurusu)

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Korean

Hanja

聽 (hangeul 청, revised cheong, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏng, Yale cheng)

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Mandarin

Verb

聽 (traditional, Pinyin tīng, simplified 听)

1. (Beginning Mandarin) to listen; to hear
2. (Beginning Mandarin) to obey

Derived terms

• 聽便
• 聽到
• 聽得到
• 聽力
• 聽起來
• 聽取
• 聽任
• 聽信
• 傾聽

Verb

聽 (traditional, Pinyin tìng, simplified 听)

1. (archaic) to handle (matters of state)

Derived terms

• 聽政

External links

• tīng - Guoyu Cidian (國語辭典)
• tìng - Guoyu Cidian (國語辭典)

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Vietnamese

Han character

聽 (thính, xính)