tīng

to listen; to hear

Type: VerbsHSK 1
Character origin

Radical 口 + 斤 (axe, phonetic). To listen is to pay attention with mouth and ears.

Did you know?

Listening to music is 听音乐 (tīng yīnyuè). It also means 'to obey' (听话, tīng huà, 'to heed the words'). In medicine, 听 can mean 'to auscultate' (听诊, tīng zhěn).

Radicals it's made of
kǒumouth
jīnaxe
Example sentence

请听我说。

Qǐng tīng wǒ shuō.

Please listen to me.

Want to take it further?

This list will always be here whenever you need it. And when you feel like really practising and making the words stick, the HSK 1 Lan app has everything you need:

  • 90 radicals explained
  • The full HSK1 vocabulary
  • 150 practice phrases
  • Pronunciation audio
  • Animated stroke order
Download free

← Back to the full HSK 1 word list