听
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In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 聽
To listen to; to hear what someone says. 听音乐 is 'listen to music', 听我说 'listen to me'. Listening on purpose is 听; actually catching a sound is 听见 'to hear', and following what was said is 听懂 'to understand'.
Nghe, lắng nghe một âm thanh hay lời người khác nói. 听音乐 là nghe nhạc, 听我说 là nghe tôi nói. Chủ động lắng nghe là 听; còn “nghe thấy” là 听见, “nghe hiểu” là 听懂.
VerbRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “听” mean?
To listen to; to hear what someone says. 听音乐 is 'listen to music', 听我说 'listen to me'. Listening on purpose is 听; actually catching a sound is 听见 'to hear', and following what was said is 听懂 'to understand'.
Is “听” formal or informal?
听 is generally neutral.