LISTEN    聽聽

TRY to HEAR.
HEARPAY ATTENTIONBE ATTENTIVEATTENDCONCENTRATEKEEP ONE'S EARS OPENPRICK UP ONE'S EARSINFORMAL BE ALL EARSLEND AN EAR
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The current word for listening is tīng 聽, the nuance often being listening to and at the same time taking note of as sound advice etc. 2. Líng 聆 adds the nuance of extreme respectful attention to the notion of listening. NB: The current word for hearing is wén 聞, and the word often involves nuances of learning something from an authoritative source. Seee HEAR.
Modern Chinese Criteria
聽 收聽 聽取 傾聽 傾耳 聆聽 聆取 洗耳恭聽 側耳細聽 聆 (obs) 竊聽 (lit) refers to listening secretly rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hyponym
  • AUDIENCE　LISTENing HUMANS.  (anc: 14/0, child: 0)
See also
  • HEARPERCEIVE SOUND.
Hypernym
  • TRY　ACT, BUT DOUBT WHETHER one WILL be SUCCESSFUL ACTING. (anc: 12/0, child: 9)
  • ACT　MOVE OR NOT MOVE CONFORMING to one's SELF:own DECIDE:decision. (anc: 11/0, child: 24)
  • MOVE　CHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION. (anc: 10/0, child: 21)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 15.52

  • De Rerum Humanarum Emendatione ( COMENIUS 1665) p. 471

    AUSCULTARE, auribus tacite attendere (hoc est sermoni intelligenter excipiendo attendere).

  • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

    LISTEN/HEAR

    audire refers to the passive sensation of sounds.

    auscultare involves the wish to hear and denotes and act of listening.

  • Traite elementaire des synonymes grecques ( DUFOUR 1910) p. 73

  • Anthologia sive Florilegium rerum et materiarum selectarum ( LANGIUS 1631) p.

    AUDIRE

  • Lateinische Synonymik ( MENGE) p. 38/38b

  • 王力古漢語字典 ( WANG LI 2000) p. 983

    聽，聞

    1. WL rightly stresses the clear contrast between ti1ng 聽 "listen" and we2n 聞 "hear". But while WL notes elsewhere that ti1ng 聽 often is "listen to with approval, approve", there is no recognition of the corresponding tendency for we2n 聞 to mean "hear with approval, learn". But a proper recognition of this is crucial in very many contexts.

  • 中國文化背景八千詞 Zhongguo wenhua beijing ba qian ci ( WU SANXING 2008) p. 68ff

    • Words (7 items)

    聽  tīng OC: theeŋ MC: theŋ 68 Attributions

    The current word for listening is tīng 聽, the nuance often being listening to and at the same time taking note of as sound advice etc.

      Word relations
    • Inconsist: 聾/DEAF The general word for deafness of any kind, congenital or not, is lóng 聾 (ant. tīng 聽 "able to hear").
    • Result: 信/BELIEVE Xìn 信 is sometimes used to refer to someone trusting something to be the case or being confident that something is the case.
    • Contrast: 聞/HEAR The standard word for hearing or overhearing anything is wén 聞.
    • Oppos: 言/SPEAK Yán 言 is to speak up, propose, typically in public, and on one's own initiative, to maintain something, and the word can indroduce direct speech as well as occasionally very limited indirect speech.

      Syntactic words
    • nabactthe (kind of) listeningCH
    • nabdispositionability to listen; tendency to listen; taste in listening
    • nabfactualwhat one has heard
    • vt(oN)omlisten to the contextually determinate person or thing
    • vt+prep+Nlisten to
    • vt[oN]listen to people; listen out for things
    • vt[oN]imperativeyou listen to me! Listen to what I have to say! (Mostly the subject of imperatives is omitted, so that here as elsewhere with verbs in the imperative one might be tempted to write the syntactic category as: vt[0][oN] . But there are apparent exceptions. In these exceptions it is typically possible to take the apparent subject as a separate vocative, along the lines of: Good friends! [You] must...)
    • vt[oN]N=speakerlisten to N
    • vtoNlisten to; pay attention to (without necessarily approving of)
    • vtoNlisten toCH
    • vtoNlisten to N carefully; listen to N and retain the informationVK
    • vtoNhearhear, "pick up" (in the streets)
    • vtoNimperativelisten to! (The category is vt[oN])
    • vtoNpassivebe listened to
    • vttoN1+.vtoN2make N1 listen to N2 (聽人以言)LZ
    聞  wén OC: mɯn MC: mi̯un 12 Attributions

    NB: The current word for hearing is wén 聞, and the word often involves nuances of learning something from an authoritative source. Seee HEAR.

      Syntactic words
    • nabtextwhat one has heard (and thus learnt second-hand)
    • vt prep Nlisten to NCH
    • vt[oN]actlisten to things
    • vtoNlisten to (and grasp the meaning of), get the opportunity to listen to; learn aboutCH
    • vtoNcausativecause to listen> gain the ear of
    • vtoNPab{S}listen to an account of S
    • vtoNpassivebe heard; allow oneself to be listened to
    • vtoNreflexive.自listen (to oneself)
    • vttoN.+V[0]listen to N Ving
    入  rù OC: njub MC: ȵip 4 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNheed, take note of
    • vtoNpassivebe listened to, win through with (advice)
    耳  ěr OC: mljɯʔ MC: ȵɨ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • vtoNhear; use one's ears, listen
    傾聽  qīng tīng MC: khjwieng theng OC: khʷleŋ theeŋ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • VPt[oN]listen with inclined headCH
    聆  líng OC: ɡ-reeŋ MC: leŋ 0 Attributions

    Líng 聆 adds the nuance of extreme respectful attention to the notion of listening.

      Syntactic words
    • vtoNlisten carefully to
      Click here to add pinyin MC:  OC: 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • VPt[oN]listen with inclined headCH