听

See also: 聽 and 聴

听 U+542C, 听 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-542C ← 含 [U+542B] CJK Unified Ideographs 吭 → [U+542D]

Translingual

Traditional	聽
Shinjitai	聴
Simplified	听

Stroke order

Han character

听 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 口竹一中 (RHML), four-corner 6202₁, composition ⿰口斤)

Derived characters

• 厛, 𠳇, 𥺐

Related characters

• 聽 (traditional form of 听)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 178, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3352
• Dae Jaweon: page 396, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 591, character 2
• Unihan data for U+542C

Chinese

Etymology 1

Glyph origin

From 𠯸 (phonetic 厅 (tīng)).

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 听 – see 聽 (“to listen; to hear; to listen to; to obey; to heed; etc.”). (This character is the simplified form of 聽).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		听

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 听
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (斤) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
蘄	*ɡɯ, *kɯl, *ɡɯn
祈	*ɡɯl
頎	*ɡɯl
旂	*ɡɯl
圻	*ɡɯl, *ŋɡɯːn, *ŋɡɯn
蚚	*ɡɯl, *ɡɯːls
岓	*ɡɯl
玂	*ɡɯl
沂	*ŋɡɯl
掀	*qʰan
釿	*ŋɡrɯnʔ, *ŋkɯn
齗	*ŋɡrɯnʔ, *ŋɡɯn
听	*ŋɡrɯnʔ, *ŋɡɯnʔ
垽	*ŋrɯns, *qɯns
斤	*kɯn, *kɯns
菦	*kɯnʔ
靳	*kɯns
劤	*kɯns
勁	*kɯns, *keŋs
赾	*kʰɯnʔ
芹	*ɡɯn
近	*ɡɯnʔ, *ɡɯns
斦	*ŋɡɯn
欣	*qʰɯn
忻	*qʰɯn
昕	*qʰɯn
訢	*qʰɯn
炘	*qʰɯn, *qʰɯns
邤	*qʰɯn
庍	*qʰɯns, *mpreːɡs
焮	*qʰɯns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ŋɡrɯnʔ, *ŋɡɯnʔ): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 斤 (OC *kɯn, *kɯns).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǐn (yin³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jan⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yǐn
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yǐn
    • Wade–Giles: yin³
    • Yale: yǐn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yiin
    • Palladius: инь (inʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /in²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: jan⁵
    • Yale: yáhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jan⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: yen⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐn¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: ngjinX, ngj+nX

Rime
Character	听	听
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	眞 (43)	欣 (57)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	宜引切	牛謹切
Baxter	ngjinX	ngj+nX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋiɪnX/	/ŋɨnX/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋinX/	/ŋɨnX/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋjenX/	/ŋiənX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋinX/	/ŋɨnX/
Li Rong	/ŋiĕnX/	/ŋiənX/
Wang Li	/ŋĭĕnX/	/ŋĭənX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ŋi̯ĕnX/	/ŋi̯ənX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yǐn	yǐn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ngan5	ngan5

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋɡrɯnʔ/, /*ŋɡɯnʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	听	听
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	6647	6664
Phonetic component	斤	斤
Rime group	文	文
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	釿	听
Old Chinese	/*ŋɡrɯnʔ/	/*ŋɡɯnʔ/

Definitions

听

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) laughing; smiling
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) having a big mouth

Compounds

• 听听
• 听然

Japanese

Kanji

听

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. laughter
2. pound sterling, pound

Readings

• Go-on: ぎん (gin)
• Kan-on: きん (kin)
• Kun: わらう (warau, 听う)^{←わらふ (warafu, 听ふ, historical)}、ポンド (pondo, 听)

Definitions

Kanji in this term
听
ぽんど Hyōgai (ateji)
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 听 – see the following entry.

【ポンド】 [noun] pound (various national former/current currency) [noun] pound (unit of weight) Alternative spellings 磅, 封度, 英斤, 英听

(This term, 听, is an alternative spelling (obsolete) of the above term.)

References

• “^▲听”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025