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 sensationalize (idiom); deliberate exaggeration to scare people
to hold audience / to advise on state affairs / to administer state affairs / audience hall / to listen in
to sound (old, foreign, exciting, right etc) / to ring (true) / to sound as if (i.e. to give the listener an impression) / to hear from somewhere
hear what he says and observe what he does (idiom, from Analects); judge a person not by his words, but by his actions
hear what he says and observe what he does (idiom, from Analects); judge a person not by his words, but by his actions
(idiom) you cannot always trust what you hear, but seeing is believing
Take what you hear to be false, only believe it when you see it (idiom). Don't believe what people tell you until you see if for yourself. / It ain't necessarily so.