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HSK
(of a pupil) to write down (in a dictation exercise); dictation / (music) to transcribe by ear
HSK 1
ear / CL: 隻|只, 個|个, 對|对 / handle (on a cup)
HSK 5
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  *捂* | 捂* | *捂
to enclose / to cover with the hand (one's eyes, nose or ears) / to cover up (an affair) / contrary / to contradict
HSK 7-9
to whisper to one another's ear
HSK 7-9
ear-piercing
HSK 7-9
to lose the way / lost / labyrinth / labyrinthus vestibularis (of the inner ear)
HSK 7-9
sharp ears and keen eyes (idiom) / keen and alert / perceptive
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  *耳* | 耳* | *耳
ear / handle (archaeology) / and that is all (Classical Chinese)
five sense organs of TCM (nose, eyes, lips, tongue, ears 鼻目口舌耳) / facial features
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  *琠* | 琠* | *琠
gem used as ear plug / jade earrings
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  *甋* | 甋* | *甋
a jar without ears
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  *穗* | 穗* | *穗
ear of grain / fringe / tassel
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  *屎* | 屎* | *屎
feces; excrement; a stool / (bound form) secretion (of the ear, eye etc)
with one's own ears
white fungus (Tremella fuciformis) / silver tree-ear fungus
ear (of corn or sorghum etc) / bunch (of grapes) / infructescence
to communicate with the spirits / psychic / (ears) sensitive / (information) accurate
to prick up one's ear / to listen attentively
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  *秀* | 秀* | *秀
(bound form) refined; elegant; graceful; beautiful / (bound form) superior; excellent / (loanword) show / (literary) to grow; to bloom; (of grain crops) to produce ears
inner ear
stick / club / cudgel / maize (corn) / ear of maize / corncob / (derog.) Korean
to approach sb's ear (to whisper)
auriculotherapy (ear acupuncture)
to have water get in (one's ear, shoes etc) / to get flooded / inflow of water
to erect (a tent etc) / to prick up (one's ears) / to raise (one's eyebrows) / to stick up (one's thumb) / to turn up (one's collar) / (of a bird) to puff up (one's feathers)
to remove earwax with an ear pick
ear ornament (earring, eardrop, stud etc)
(of sound) to never stop / to fall incessantly on the ear / to linger on
the seven apertures of the human head: 2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 nostrils, 1 mouth
to do as one sees fit / to play it by ear (according to the circumstances)
ear of wheat
to bend an ear (to) / to listen
inflammation of middle ear / otitis media
pleasant to hear (i.e. agreeable news) / to one's liking / music to one's ears / Taiwan pr. [zhong4 ting1]
lit. like thunder piercing the ear / a well-known reputation (idiom)
(idiom) terribly busy / up to one's ears in work
eyes and ears / sb's attention or notice / information / knowledge / spies
to block one's ears and not listen (idiom); to turn a deaf ear
ear
to tweak one's ears and scratch one's cheeks (as an expression of anxiety, delight, frustration etc) (idiom)
to turn a deaf ear to (idiom); to pretend not to hear
(idiom) (of sb unfairly accused) to have all one's protestations fall on deaf ears; to be unable to convince sb of one's innocence
lit. wind past your ear / fig. sth you don't pay much attention to / in one ear and out the other
see the opportunity and act (idiom); to act according to circumstances / to play it by ear / to use one's discretion
lit. wind past your ear / fig. sth you don't pay much attention to / in one ear and out the other
to listen with respectful attention / (a polite request to sb to speak) / we are all ears
lit. to cover one's ears whilst stealing a bell / to deceive oneself / to bury one's head in the sand (idiom)
to be up to one's ears in work (idiom) / to be unable to attend to other things at the same time
to slap on the face / to box sb's ears
(coll.) to whisper in sb's ear
pleasing to the ear
lit. to play the lute to a cow (idiom) / fig. offering a treat to an unappreciative audience / to cast pearls before swine / caviar to the general / to preach to deaf ears / to talk over sb's head
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  *擗* | 擗* | *擗
(literary) to beat the breast / to break off; to snap off (a branch, an ear of corn etc)
smiling wholeheartedly (idiom); beaming from ear to ear
across one's whole face / (smiling) from ear to ear
lit. smell of breast milk not yet dried (idiom) / fig. immature and inexperienced; still wet behind the ears
to hear but not react (idiom); to turn a deaf ear / to ignore deliberately
eardrum / tympanum (of the middle ear) / tympanic membrane
middle ear
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  *瑱* | 瑱* | *瑱
(literary) jade pendants attached to an official hat and hanging beside each ear, symbolizing refusal to listen to malicious talk / (literary) to fill up
nine orifices of the human body (eyes, nostrils, ears, mouth, urethra, anus)
outer ear / auricle / pinna
to block one's ears (not wishing to hear)
lit. pale-faced scholar (idiom); young and inexperienced person without practical experience / still wet behind the ears
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  *刵* | 刵* | *刵
cutting off the ears as punishment
ear of grain / gerbe (used on coats of arms)
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  *聃* | 聃* | *聃
ears without rim
speech that grates on the ear (idiom); bitter truths / home truths (that one does not want to hear)
to shut one's eyes and stop one's ears / out of touch with reality / to bury one's head in the sand
wood ear; jelly ear (edible fungus) / CL:
jug ears
the seven apertures of the human head: 2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 nostrils, 1 mouth
incus or anvil bone of middle ear, passing sound vibration from malleus hammer bone to stapes stirrup bone
tympanic cavity (of the middle ear)
malleus or hammer bone of middle ear
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  *斝* | 斝* | *斝
small jade cup with ears
ear thermometer
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  *鰒* | 鰒* | *鰒
Haliotis gigantea / sea ear
lit. the east wind blowing in a horse's ear (idiom) / fig. words one pays no heed to
to have the ears of grain come up
lit. to play together ear to ear and temple to temple (idiom) / fig. (of a boy and a girl) to play together often during childhood
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  *耷* | 耷* | *耷
(literary) big ears / (bound form) to droop
unpleasant to hear / grates on the ear (of home truths)
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  *衄* | 衄* | *衄
to bleed from the nose (or from the ears, gums etc) / fig. to be defeated
raucous / ear-splitting
earhole / ear piercing hole; earring hole
ear-splitting
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  *馘* | 馘* | *馘
(literary) to cut off the left ear of a slain enemy / the severed ear of a slain enemy
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  *穟* | 穟* | *穟
ear of grain
(idiom) young and inexperienced; wet behind the ears
eardrum / tympanum (of the middle ear) / tympanic membrane
outer ear / auricle / pinna
outer ear
bowed head and ears glued (idiom); docile and obedient / at sb's beck and call
to cover (typically by placing a hand over sb's mouth, nose or ears etc)
external auditory meatus / auditory canal, between the outer ear 外耳 and tympanum 鼓膜
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  *咡* | 咡* | *咡
space between mouth and ears
protruding ears
lit. rotten wood cannot be carved (idiom) / fig. you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
to fold the corner of a page / to dog-ear

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