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Chinese symbol for “auditory”

听觉
tīng jué
Traditional: 聽覺
sense of hearing; auditory

The closest CC-CEDICT match for auditory is 听觉 (tīng jué), defined as: sense of hearing; auditory.

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Characters and stroke order

听 tīng
to hear, to listen; to understand; to obey
radical 30 ⼝ · 7 strokes
觉 jué
conscious; to nap, to sleep; to wake up
radical 147 ⾒ · 9 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 听觉.

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
听众 (聽眾)tīng zhòngaudience; listeners
倾听 (傾聽)qīng tīngto listen attentively
觉得 (覺得)jué deto think that ...; to feel that ...; to feel (uncomfortable etc)
感觉 (感覺)gǎn juéfeeling; impression; sensation; to feel; to perceive

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.