聽

tìng = ti + (e)ng4

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

ti̅ng = ti + (e)ng1

to listen to; to hear / to heed; to obey / a can (loanword from English "tin") / classifier for canned beverages / to let be; to allow (Taiwan pr. [ting4]) / (literary) to administer; to deal with (Taiwan pr. [ting4])

听 = 口 + 斤 : Mother Teresa (ti) is listening to the sound that is made when a barbell (斤) squashes a mandarin (口) in front of the engine ((e)ng1).

聽 character breakdown

The character 聽 cannot be broken down into individual components.

Characters with 聽 as component

ti̅ng = ti + (e)ng1

(reception) hall / living room / office / provincial government department

厅 = 丁 + 厂 : Mother Teresa (ti) build a dining hall (厅) in front of the engine ((e)ng1). She nailed (丁) a chocolate factory (厂) to the ceiling of the dining hall so that you just have to stand below it to let the chocolate flow into your mouth.

Words with 聽

tapping device / bug

to listen (respectfully)

to eavesdrop / to wiretap

to listen to information / to get the news / to believe what one hears

to take a laissez-faire attitude

to sensationalize (idiom); deliberate exaggeration to scare people

to let (sth happen) / to allow (sb to do sth) / to submit to / to yield

unable to make sense of what one is hearing

not be able to hear

not to listen / to be deaf to

to hold audience / to advise on state affairs / to administer state affairs / audience hall / to listen in

to sound (old, foreign, exciting, right etc) / to ring (true) / to sound as if (i.e. to give the listener an impression) / to hear from somewhere

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(idiom) you cannot always trust what you hear, but seeing is believing

lit. the eyes watch six roads and the ears listen in all directions / to be observant and alert (idiom)

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see 眼觀四面，耳聽八方|眼观四面，耳听八方[yan3 guan1 si4 mian4 , er3 ting1 ba1 fang1]

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lit. the eyes observe all sides and the ears listen in all directions (idiom) / fig. to be observant and alert

to listen carefully (for tiny sounds)

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Take what you hear to be false, only believe it when you see it (idiom). Don't believe what people tell you until you see if for yourself. / It ain't necessarily so.

to sound (difficult, worthwhile etc) / to seem

can't hear

Sentences with 聽

聽 currently does not appear in any sentence.