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聽

tīng, tìng

hear

Phonosemantic compound. 耳 (ear)represents the meaning, while 德 and 𡈼 represent the sound.

Components
耳 meaning component

耳  Meaning component

ěr

  

ear

𡈼 sound component

𡈼  Sound component

tǐng

  

stand upright

惪 sound component

惪  Sound component

dé

  

virtue

Evolution

聽 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
聽 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
聽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
聽 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
聽 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

听 (聽) 

tīng

hear, listen; understand; obey; to listen; to hear; to obey; a can (loanword from English "tin"); classifier for canned beverages

听 (聽) 

tìng

(literary pronunciation, still advocated in Taiwan) to rule; to sentence; to allow

Most common words with 聽
Freq.
Word
Meaning

听

to listen

听到

to hear

听说

hearsay

听见

to hear

好听

pleasant to hear

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)

廳

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*l̥ˤeŋ

theng

tīng

listen

*l̥ˤeŋ-s

thengH

tìng

listen to; obey


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 99.6476% of movies

92nd most common character in movies

285th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

22

Simplified

听

Unicode

U+807D

Shuowen

“聽，聆也。从耳、，声。”


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