听
(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])
听 character breakdown
mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls
Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).
catty / (PRC) weight equal to 500 g / (Tw) weight equal to 600 g / (HK, Malaysia, Singapore) slightly over 604 g
Characters with 听 as component
听
is not used as a component in another character.
Words with 听
to sit in on (proceedings) / to be present at a meeting as an observer / to audit (a class)
to obscure the facts (idiom); to mislead the public with prevarication and deliberate falsehoods
(idiom) do as you see fit / do whatever you like / (I, we) leave it in your hands
to believe what one sees, not what one hears (idiom). Don't believe what people tell you until you see if for yourself. / It ain't necessarily so.
lit. the eyes watch six roads and the ears listen in all directions / to be observant and alert (idiom)
see 眼觀四面，耳聽八方|眼观四面，耳听八方[yan3 guan1 si4 mian4 , er3 ting1 ba1 fang1]
lit. the eyes observe all sides and the ears listen in all directions (idiom) / fig. to be observant and alert