竖起耳朵

to prick up one's ears / to strain to hear sth

to prick up one's ears; to strain to hear sth

variant of 豎|竖[shu4]

to erect / vertical / vertical stroke (in Chinese characters)

to erect (a tent etc) / to prick up (one's ears) / to raise (one's eyebrows) / to stick up (one's thumb) / to turn up (one's collar) / (of a bird) to puff up (one's feathers)

to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) / verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) / classifier for occurrences or unpredictable events: case, instance / classifier for groups: batch, group

ear / handle (archaeology) / and that is all (Classical Chinese)

ear / CL:隻|只[zhi1],個|个[ge4],對|对[dui4] / handle (on a cup)

flower / earlobe / fig. item on both sides / classifier for flowers, clouds etc

variant of 朵[duo3]