HSK 3.0 Level 1 · Everyday Verbs

听见 tīngjiàn “to hear” in Chinese

Traditional 聽見

What 听见 means

  1. to hear

How to say 听见

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale听tīng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale见jiàn4th tone, falling

听见 in a sentence

  1. 我没听见。

    Wǒ méi tīngjiàn.

    I didn’t hear it.

    Sentence #1417573 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我听见她唱歌了。

    Wǒ tīngjiàn tā chànggē le.

    I heard her singing.

    Sentence #819806 from Tatoeba

  3. 你听见我说的了吗？

    Nǐ tīngjiàn wǒ shuō de le ma?

    Did you hear what I said?

    Sentence #6728915 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 听见 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.

The character 见 (jiàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
见jiànto see
  • 冂down box · jiōng
  • 儿legs · ér

Memory aidSimplified from 見: a big eye 目 on top of a person 儿: to see.

How to write 听见

听 7 strokes · 见 4 strokes

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

Words related to 听见

Words with 听

听tīng · to listen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

Words with 见

看见kànjiàn · to see再见zàijiàn · goodbye见jiàn · to see见面jiànmiàn · meet/see somebody见到jiàndào · to see不见bújiàn · to be missing遇见yùjiàn · to meet (by chance)常见chángjiàn · common意见yìjiàn · idea可见kějiàn · it can clearly be seen (that this is the case)

More words: Everyday Verbs

唱chàng · to sing开车kāichē · to drive a car睡shuì · to sleep做饭zuòfàn · to prepare a meal帮bāng · to help打dǎ · to hit打开dǎkāi · to open值zhí · to be worth

FAQs

听见 (tīngjiàn) means “to hear”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word.
Say it tīngjiàn: tīng with a 1st tone, then jiàn with a 4th 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, 听见 is written 聽見. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type tingjian with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 听见 from the suggestions. Typing tingjian into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
听见 is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 1 word list. It is not on the older 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.