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HSK
headphones / earphones / telephone receiver
HSK 4
ear / CL: 隻|只, 個|个, 對|对 / handle (on a cup)
HSK 5
sweet-sounding / beautiful (of sound)
HSK 7-9
a slap on the face / CL: 記|记
HSK 7-9
a pleasant change / a breath of fresh air / refreshing
HSK 7-9
ear-piercing
HSK 7-9
what's frequently heard can be repeated in detail (idiom)
HSK 7-9
flushed with anger (or excitement)
HSK 7-9
to whisper to one another's ear
HSK 7-9
to witness personally
HSK 7-9
Turkey
lit. like thunder piercing the ear / a well-known reputation (idiom)
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ear / handle (archaeology) / and that is all (Classical Chinese)
tinnitus
joule (loanword)
wood ear; jelly ear (edible fungus) / CL:
eyes and ears / sb's attention or notice / information / knowledge / spies
earplug / earphone
stud earring
earwax
ear piercing hole; earring hole
inner ear
Germanic
outer ear
middle ear
deaf
to bend an ear (to) / to listen
headphones / earphones
to whisper in sb's ear / a whisper
(of sound) to never stop / to fall incessantly on the ear / to linger on
chameleon plant; fish mint (Houttuynia cordata), esp. its edible rhizome
eardrum / tympanum (of the middle ear) / tympanic membrane
ear ornament (earring, eardrop, stud etc)
to be hearing impaired
to sound familiar / familiar-sounding
Siberian cocklebur (botany)
to be influenced
to hear of / to hear about
base of the ear / ear / (Buddhism) sense of hearing
to tweak one's ears and scratch one's cheeks (as an expression of anxiety, delight, frustration etc) (idiom)
outer ear; auricle; pinna
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
earmuff / CL:
white fungus (Tremella fuciformis) / silver tree-ear fungus
cochlea
lit. wind past your ear / fig. sth you don't pay much attention to / in one ear and out the other
lit. to cover one's ears whilst stealing a bell / to deceive oneself / to bury one's head in the sand (idiom)
to block one's ears and not listen (idiom); to turn a deaf ear
to approach sb's ear (to whisper)
sb with preternaturally good hearing (in fiction) / fig. a well-informed person
to listen with respectful attention / (a polite request to sb to speak) / we are all ears
earlobe
with one's own ears
pleasing to the ear
earwax / cerumen
ear-splitting (idiom); deafening
the walls have ears (idiom)
ear-splitting
sharp ears and keen eyes (idiom) / keen and alert / perceptive
to fool people (idiom) / to pull the wool over people's eyes
loyal advice jars on the ears (idiom)
to prick up one's ear / to listen attentively
eardrum / tympanum (of the middle ear) / tympanic membrane
(coll.) a slap on one's face / a cuff
fat; plump; chubby
unpleasant to hear / grates on the ear (of home truths)
words still ringing in one's ears (idiom)
to give sincere advice (idiom) / to exhort earnestly
bowed head and ears glued (idiom); docile and obedient / at sb's beck and call
lit. as the autumn breeze passes the ear (idiom); not in the least concerned
outer ear / auricle / pinna
handle (on a pot)
auriculotherapy (ear acupuncture)
Turkish (language)
tipsy and merry (idiom)
subauricular gland / parotid gland (salivary gland in the cheek)
raucous / ear-splitting
to remove earwax with an ear pick
earpick / curette
to intentionally reinterpret a spoken expression as if one had misheard it, for the sake of humor (often, it is a phrase in a foreign language twisted into a similar-sounding phrase in one's native language with a completely different meaning) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 空耳 "soramimi")
headphones
to refuse to listen
Lao Zi
Nie Er (1912-1935), musician and composer of the PRC national anthem March of the Volunteer Army 義勇軍進行曲|义勇军进行曲
(anatomy) ear canal
(coll.) to whisper in sb's ear
hearing ability
otolith
inflammation of middle ear / otitis media
slap
trunnion / protrusions on either side of a cannon facilitating mounting and vertical pivot
Second book of Samuel
Malta
to block one's ears (not wishing to hear)
a Turk / Turkish person
white fungus (Tremella fuciformis) / snow fungus
earache
First book of Samuel
ear

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