听话听声，锣鼓听音

to understand the unspoken implications (idiom)

smile (archaic)

(literary pronunciation, still advocated in Taiwan) to rule / to sentence / to allow

to listen to; to hear / to heed; to obey / a can (loanword from English "tin") / classifier for canned beverages / to let be; to allow (Taiwan pr. [ting4]) / (literary) to administer; to deal with (Taiwan pr. [ting4])

to do what one is told / obedient

dialect / language / spoken words / speech / talk / words / conversation / what sb said / CL:種|种[zhong3],席[xi2],句[ju4],口[kou3],番[fan1]

old variant of 話|话[hua4]

sound / voice / tone / noise / reputation / classifier for sounds

gong / CL:面[mian4]

gongs and drums / Chinese percussion instruments

old variant of 鼓[gu3]

drum / CL:通[tong4],面[mian4] / to drum / to strike / to rouse / to bulge / to swell

sound / noise / note (of musical scale) / tone / news / syllable / reading (phonetic value of a character)