How it used to be written
These are the forms of 聾, the traditional character: 聋 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 西漢 - See all 7 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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有人告诉我这个男孩耳聋。
Someone told me that this boy cannot hear.
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要用智慧来理解智慧:如果听众是聋的话,那音乐什么都不是。
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.