tīng, tìng
hear
Phonosemantic compound. 耳 (ear)represents the meaning, while 德 and 𡈼 represent the sound.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*l̥ˤeŋ | theng | tīng | listen |
*l̥ˤeŋ-s | thengH | tìng | listen to; obey |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 99.6476% of movies
92nd most common character in movies
285th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 22 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+807D |
Shuowen | “聽,聆也。从耳、,声。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.841
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