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Chinese symbol for “audience”

听众
tīng zhòng
Traditional: 聽眾
audience; listeners

The closest CC-CEDICT match for audience is 听众 (tīng zhòng), defined as: audience; listeners.

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

听 tīng
to hear, to listen; to understand; to obey
radical 30 ⼝ · 7 strokes
众 zhòng
multitude, crowd; masses, public
radical 9 ⼈ · 6 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “audience”

WordPinyinMeaning
观众 (觀眾)guān zhòngspectators; audience; visitors (to an exhibition etc)
看客kàn kèaudience; spectators; onlookers
会众 (會眾)huì zhòngaudience; participants
受众 (受眾)shòu zhòngrecipients (of information, media etc); audience
观客 (觀客)guān kèaudience

Related words

Other words that share a character with 听众.

WordPinyinMeaning
听到 (聽到)tīng dàoto hear
听说 (聽說)tīng shuōto hear (sth said); one hears (that)
听见 (聽見)tīng jiànto hear
听取 (聽取)tīng qǔto hear (news); to listen to
倾听 (傾聽)qīng tīngto listen attentively
群众 (群眾)qún zhòngmass; multitude
公众 (公眾)gōng zhòngpublic
民众 (民眾)mín zhòngthe populace; the masses; the common people

See also: Japanese symbol for “audience”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.

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