听 tīng
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 口 — mouth
- Made of
- 口 mouth 斤 a catty (about 500 grams)
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
听到
tīngdào
to hear
Characters in this word
到 dào
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 刂 — knife
- Made of
- 至 reach, arrive 刂 knife
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 我听到有人在唱歌。 Wǒ tīngdào yǒu rén zài chànggē. I heard someone singing.
- 我听到妈妈叫我。 Wǒ tīngdào māma jiào wǒ. I heard Mom calling me.
- 我没听到。 Wǒ méi tīngdào. I didn't hear it.
Related words
- 好听 hǎotīng pleasant to hear
- 听 tīng to listen, to hear
- 听见 tīngjiàn to hear
- 听写 tīngxiě dictation; to write from dictation
- 到 dào to arrive, to reach; to
- 得到 dédào to get, to obtain
- 回到 huídào to return to
- 看到 kàndào to see
- 来到 láidào to arrive, to come to
- 找到 zhǎodào to find
- 问 wèn to ask
- 回答 huídá to answer; answer