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听

聽traditional

HSK 1#190 by frequencyradical 口

tīng["v"]

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

yǐn

smile (archaic)

Examples

听!

Listen!

听着。

Listen.

Part of the HSK 1 word list.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.