Chinese symbol for “hear”
听到
tīng dào
Traditional: 聽到
to hear
The closest CC-CEDICT match for hear is 听到 (tīng dào), defined as: to hear.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “hear”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 听说 (聽說) | tīng shuō | to hear (sth said); one hears (that) |
| 听见 (聽見) | tīng jiàn | to hear |
| 闻 (聞) | wén | to hear; news |
| 听取 (聽取) | tīng qǔ | to hear (news); to listen to |
| 审理 (審理) | shěn lǐ | to hear (a case) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 听到.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 听说 (聽說) | tīng shuō | to hear (sth said); one hears (that) |
| 听见 (聽見) | tīng jiàn | to hear |
| 听取 (聽取) | tīng qǔ | to hear (news); to listen to |
| 听众 (聽眾) | tīng zhòng | audience; listeners |
| 倾听 (傾聽) | qīng tīng | to listen attentively |
| 看到 | kàn dào | to see |
| 得到 | dé dào | to get; to obtain; to receive |
| 受到 | shòu dào | to receive (praise, an education, punishment etc); to be ...ed (praised, educated, punished etc) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “hear”.
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.