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HSK
pleasant to hear
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *聽* | 聽* | *聽
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])
HSK 1
to hear
HSK 1
to hear
HSK 1
(of a pupil) to write down (in a dictation exercise); dictation / (music) to transcribe by ear
HSK 1
to hear (sth said) / one hears (that) / hearsay / listening and speaking
HSK 2
unpleasant to hear / coarse / vulgar / offensive / shameful
HSK 2
to attend a lecture / to listen to a talk
HSK 2
hearing / listening ability
HSK 3
to listen to (a radio broadcast)
HSK 3
to ask about / to make some inquiries / to ask around
HSK 3
audience / listeners
HSK 3
to hear (news); to listen to
HSK 6
to do what one is told / obedient
HSK 7-9
to listen attentively
HSK 7-9
to listen and obey / to comply with / to heed / to hearken
HSK 7-9
pleasant to listen to
HSK 7-9
shocking / horrifying / atrocious / terrible
HSK 7-9
to answer the phone
HSK 7-9
public hearing
to listen (respectfully)
Walkman (trademark) / portable stereo
listener / member of audience
to monitor; to listen in; to eavesdrop
sense of hearing / auditory
to listen / to hear what sb says / news one has heard
to eavesdrop / to monitor (secretly)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *听* | 听* | *听
smile (archaic)
to understand (on hearing) / to catch (what is spoken)
hearing impairment
hearing aid
to listen to a performance of pinghua storytelling 評話|评话 / to listen to an audiobook
hard of hearing
to sit in on (proceedings) / to be present at a meeting as an observer / to audit (a class)
to listen to information / to get the news / to believe what one hears
to attend a class / to go to a lecture
(legislative) hearing
auditor (student)
to mishear / to hear wrongly
to obey an order / to take orders / to accept a state of affairs
pleasant to hear (i.e. agreeable news) / to one's liking / music to one's ears / Taiwan pr. [zhong4 ting1]
frightening words to scare people (idiom); alarmist talk / reds under the beds
to obscure the facts (idiom); to mislead the public with prevarication and deliberate falsehoods
to see, hear and obey (idiom); to take advice / to take sb at his word
to listen carefully
to listen carefully (for tiny sounds)
to listen with respectful attention / (a polite request to sb to speak) / we are all ears
tapping device / bug
to sensationalize (idiom); deliberate exaggeration to scare people
to wait for (orders, a decision, a judgment)
(idiom) do as you see fit / do whatever you like / (I, we) leave it in your hands
to eavesdrop / to tap (telephone conversations) / to intercept and investigate
to take a laissez-faire attitude
to listen to the next chapter for an explanation
lit. to govern from behind the curtain / to rule in place of the emperor (idiom)
to let (sth happen) / to allow (sb to do sth) / to submit to / to yield
to attend court / to take part in a trial
to allow (sb to do as he pleases)
worth hearing a hundred times
to obey / to allow
hear what he says and observe what he does (idiom, from Analects); judge a person not by his words, but by his actions
ossicles (in the middle ear) / also written 聽小骨|听小骨
to hear but not react (idiom); to turn a deaf ear / to ignore deliberately
to hold audience / to advise on state affairs / to administer state affairs / audience hall / to listen in
(idiom) to submit to the will of heaven; to resign oneself to fate; to trust to luck
to judge (i.e. to hear and pass judgment in a law court) / to hear and decide
stethoscope
to make inquiries / to try to find out / to pry
to hear clearly
to hear litigation (in a law court) / to hear a case
a can (loanword from English "tin")
(idiom) to speak in a pleasant and captivating manner
gossip; hearsay; rumor
to let things take their course / to take things as they come
to eavesdrop / to listen in secret to sb's conversations
to eavesdrop outside bridal bedchamber (folk custom)
to startle sb with scary tale
nice to hear / worth listening to
telephone receiver / headphone / earphone / earpiece / stethoscope
to shut one's eyes and stop one's ears / out of touch with reality / to bury one's head in the sand
to eavesdrop / to wiretap
to allow (sb to act arbitrarily) / to let sb have his head
to attend an opera / to see an opera
hear what he says and observe what he does (idiom, from Analects); judge a person not by his words, but by his actions
(mahjong) to be one tile away from completing a hand / (sports) to be on the verge of winning
to allow sb to do sth at his convenience
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
selective listening / to hear what one wants to hear
to mishear
unwarranted talk the listener can take or leave (idiom); sth not to be taken too seriously
to attend a meeting (and hear what is discussed)
audition / to give sb an audition / to check by listening
to heed advice; to listen to counsel
listener (of a radio program etc)
to eavesdrop outside bridal bedchamber (folk custom)
audibility threshold
unable to make sense of what one is hearing
can't hear
listening, speaking, reading and writing (language skills)

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