听说聽說 in English

Character breakdown

• 听聽 tīng to listen to
• 说說 shuì to persuade

Stroke order

How it used to be written

听

• Small seal script

说

These are the forms of 說, the traditional character: 说 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 5 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 你可能听说过。

  You may have heard of that.

• 听说你儿子参与了学生运动。

  Your son took part in the student movement, I hear.

• 听说你有新女朋友了。

  I hear you've got a new girlfriend.

• 听说你要结婚了。

  I heard you are going to get married.

• 听说老师要结婚，大家都想参加她的婚礼。

  When they heard that their teacher was going to get married, everyone wanted to attend her wedding.

• 我从没听说过这个演员。

  I've never heard of this actor.

• 我们经常听说日本人工作勤奋。

  We often hear it said that the Japanese are good workers.

• 我听说他打麻将很厉害。

  I hear he is good at mahjong.

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