in English

lóng adjective
deaf

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.

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

Examples

  • 有人告诉我这个男孩耳聋。

    Someone told me that this boy cannot hear.

  • 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.

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