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Chinese symbol for “headphone”

听筒
tīng tǒng
Traditional: 聽筒
telephone receiver; headphone; earphone; earpiece; stethoscope

The closest CC-CEDICT match for headphone is 听筒 (tīng tǒng), defined as: telephone receiver; headphone; earphone; earpiece; stethoscope.

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
筒 tǒng
tube, pipe, cylinder; a thick piece of bamboo
radical 118 ⽵ · 12 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 听筒.

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
手电筒 (手電筒)shǒu diàn tǒngflashlight; electric hand torch
话筒 (話筒)huà tǒngmicrophone; (telephone) receiver; handset

See also: Japanese symbol for “headphone”.

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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