听 tīng / tìng in a sentence
Listen (obey - supervise - tin can); Let (allow)
听 (tīng / tìng) means Listen (obey - supervise - tin can), Let (allow). Below are 24 of the 99 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
请注意 听 重点。
Qǐng zhùyì tīng zhòngdiǎn.
Please listen out for the main points.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 重点
我越 听 越糊涂。
Wǒ yuè tīng yuè hútu.
The more I listen the more confused I get.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 糊涂
大家 听 了都笑了。
Dàjiā tīng le dōu xiào le.
Everyone laughed when they heard it.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 笑
这段话我没 听 懂。
Zhè duàn huà wǒ méi tīngdǒng.
I didn't understand this passage.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 段
请 听 下面的对话。
Qǐng tīng xiàmiàn de duìhuà.
Please listen to the following dialogue.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 对话
我的耳朵 听 不清楚。
Wǒ de ěrduo tīng bu qīngchu.
My ears can't hear it clearly.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 耳朵
她的爱好是 听 音乐。
Tā de àihào shì tīng yīnyuè.
Her hobby is listening to music.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 音乐
听 音乐让我很放松。
Tīng yīnyuè ràng wǒ hěn fàngsōng.
Listening to music relaxes me.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 放松
我每天早上 听 广播。
Wǒ měi tiān zǎoshang tīng guǎngbō.
I listen to the radio every morning.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 广播
请继续说，我在 听 。
Qǐng jìxù shuō, wǒ zài tīng.
Please go on, I am listening.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 继续
我想 听 听 你的看法。
Wǒ xiǎng tīngting nǐ de kànfǎ.
I would like to hear your view.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 看法
他每天早上 听 电台。
Tā měi tiān zǎoshang tīng diàntái.
He listens to the radio every morning.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 电台
请 听 听 对方的意见。
Qǐng tīngting duìfāng de yìjiàn.
Please listen to the other side's view.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 对方
她喜欢 听 古典音乐。
Tā xǐhuan tīng gǔdiǎn yīnyuè.
She likes listening to classical music.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 古典
Reading these is one thing; producing 听 yourself is another. Cloze in Context takes a sentence from this same bank, removes one word and asks you to put it back — beginner, intermediate and advanced.
From the graded readers
王老师说：“不要怕，多说，多 听 。”
wáng lǎoshīshuō:" bùyào pà, duō shuō, duō tīng / tìng."
Mr Wang says, "Don't be afraid — speak more, listen more."
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Learning Chinese
我 听 完以后，坐在那里很长时间说不出话。
wǒ tīngwán yǐhòu, zuò zài nàli hěn cháng / zhǎng shíjiān shuō bùchū huà.
After I heard that I sat there for a long time unable to speak.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · A Misunderstanding
From the grammar library
你 听 见了吗？
Nǐ tīngjiàn le ma?
Did you hear that?
Grammar library · HSK 3 · Result complements — 完, 好, 到, 见
对不起，我 听 不懂。
Duìbuqǐ, wǒ tīng bu dǒng.
Sorry, I don't understand.
Grammar library · HSK 3 · Result complements — 完, 好, 到, 见
听 appears in 99 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 听
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 听
How is 听 used in a sentence?
This page shows 99 sentences using 听 (tīng / tìng, "Listen (obey - supervise - tin can), Let (allow)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 听 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 听 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 听 an HSK word?
Yes — 听 is on the official HSK 1 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 1 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 听?
The dictionary page for 听 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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