HSK 1 · Common Verbs

听 tīng “to listen” in Chinese

Traditional 聽

What 听 means

  1. to listen
  2. to listen to
  3. to hear
  4. to heed
  5. to obey
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • a can (loanword from English “tin”)
  • classifier for canned beverages
  • to let be
  • to allow

How to say 听

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale听tīng1st tone, high and level

听 in a sentence

  1. 你们在听我说吗？

    Nǐmen zài tīng wǒ shuō ma?

    Are you all listening to me?

    Sentence #793986 from Tatoeba

  2. 她不听老师的。

    Tā bù tīng lǎoshī de.

    She doesn’t listen to her teacher.

    Sentence #9432346 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 谁在听？

    Shéi zài tīng?

    Who’s listening?

    Sentence #10787289 from Tatoeba

How 听 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 听 (tīng) with each of its parts in a different colour
听tīngto listen to; to hear
  • 口mouth · kǒu
  • 斤axe · jīn

Memory aidMouth 口 with 斤 (jīn) for the sound. The full form 聽 has an ear 耳 in it: to listen.

How to write 听

听 7 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

听 (tīng) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 听 (tīng). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 听

Words with 听

听见tīngjiàn · to hear好听hǎotīng · pleasant to hear听说tīngshuō · to hear (it said that)难听nántīng · unpleasant to hear打听dǎting · to ask about倾听qīngtīng · to listen attentively

More words: Common Verbs

在zài · to be at去qù · to go来lái · to come看kàn · to look说shuō · to speak读dú · to read写xiě · to write认识rènshi · to know (someone)

FAQs

听 (tīng) means “to listen” or “to listen to”. It is an HSK 1 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it tīng: tīng with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 听 is written 聽. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type ting with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 听 from the suggestions. Typing ting into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
听 is an HSK 1 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.