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Clara Parker Luce
Clara Parker Luce
5 years ago

The box looks like an ear with an outline and then some sound going into it

Zineb Dardafaa
Zineb Dardafaa
5 years ago

To remember the meaning of this character it’s easy, you can recognise a “T” inserted inside the character , for “ting” = listen

Isa Cuellar
Isa Cuellar
5 years ago

The second radical of the character looks similar to the cartilage we have on our ears.

Ola
Ola
4 years ago

It looks like someone’s eavesdropping on a conversation with a glass: radical on the left is a person, and radical on the right is the glass being held against the door

Angelo Giovannoni
Angelo Giovannoni
4 years ago

looks like an ear

Seonyeong Cho
Seonyeong Cho
2 years ago

the mouth radical indicates someone’s mouth is talking and so you need to listen and the right part has the capital “T” inside to memorize it as “Ting”

Ashot Badalyan
Ashot Badalyan
2 years ago

It looks like a face from the side, like the person tries to listen (eavesdropping) .

Emiliano Cossu
Emiliano Cossu
2 years ago

It looks like an open ear with waves to the side.

Rudy Bhukhanwala
Rudy Bhukhanwala
2 years ago

The left radical is the mouth and the right part of the character kind of resembles a ear, therefore meaning to listen.

Tina Kralimarkova
Tina Kralimarkova
2 years ago

This looks like someone gossiping and holding up their hand to listen to a person speaking.

Crystal Lin
Crystal Lin
2 years ago

the left part looks like an ear and the right looks like a hand trying to focus on listening for something

Bulat Sharafiev
Bulat Sharafiev
1 year ago

mouth radical looks like an ear and the right side is like sound (we can see T – ting)

Mishka
Mishka
1 year ago

It’s a rectangle next to a T inside a square root

Haya Faisal
Haya Faisal
1 year ago

It looks like An O F T. And you hear a ting often

Jaden Correa
Jaden Correa
1 year ago

I think of a person with their back turned to the mouth radical to signify listening instead of talking.

Emily Tran
Emily Tran
1 year ago

There is a little “T” on the right, and tīng starts with a “T”.

Sachi
Sachi
1 year ago

It reminds me of my granda, sitting back on his armchair infront of the radio listening to old country music.

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NYU Abu Dhabi
Anna
Anna
1 year ago

Part of the right part resembles “T” which can be associated with “ting”. It also looks like an ear, listening to the sounds.

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NYU Abu Dhabi
Deron Nguyen
Deron Nguyen
10 months ago

It looks like right side is putting it’s ear up against the right side to listen.

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NYU Shanghai
Julie
Julie
3 months ago

This character reminds me of a parent (mouth radical) telling their children (t shape) to go to their room (wrapping around the t) because they would not LISTEN

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NYU Shanghai
Alim
Alim
3 months ago

It looks like on the left is an ear of a person who is stretching himself(on one knee)

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NYU Shanghai
Ryan Kim
Ryan Kim
3 months ago

I remembered the mouth radical almost as a speaker and the t inside of the second part of the character for listening.

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NYU Shanghai
chuge
chuge
3 months ago

radical is mouth and next structure is one tall person , one short person standing, short person is trying to hear tall person’s talk

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NYU Shanghai