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听

yǐn, tīng, tìng

listen

Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 厅 represents the sound. Simplified form of 聽. Before 听 was used as a simplified character, it was pronounced yǐn and was an archaic word for "smile".

Components
口 meaning component

口  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

厅 sound component

厅  Sound component

tīng

  

hall

Evolution

听 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
听 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

听  

yǐn

smile (archaic)

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 听
Freq.
Word
Meaning

听

to listen

听到

to hear

听说

hearsay

听见

to hear

好听

pleasant to hear

Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 99.6476% of movies

92nd most common character in movies

285th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

聽

Unicode

U+542C

Shuowen

“听，笑皃。从口，斤聲。”


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