耳 ěr

1. ěr noun ear
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Used in literary Chinese as a noun and in bound form in modern Chinese as part of the two-syllable word 耳朵 (ABC 'ěr' 耳 bf; CC-CEDICT '耳'; Guoyu '耳' n 1; NCCED '耳' 1)
2. ěr noun Kangxi radical 128
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
   Notes: Ear (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7; Guoyu '耳' n 5)
3. ěr particle and that is all
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In Classical Chinese 耳 is a fusion of 而已 placed at the end of the sentence to restrict the meaning of the sentence (Guoyu '耳' particle 2; Pulleyblank 1995, p. 134). For example, 直好世俗之樂耳。'I only love the music that suits the manners of the present age.' (Mengzi: 2.1/7/10, translation by Legge)
4. ěr noun an ear-shaped object
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '耳' n 3; NCCED '耳' 2)
5. ěr adjective on both sides
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (NCCED '耳' 3)
6. ěr noun a vessel handle
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: For example, the handles of a vase (ABC 'ěr' 耳 n; CC-CEDICT '耳'; Guoyu '耳' n 2)
7. ěr proper noun Er
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
   Notes: (Guoyu '耳' n 4)
8. ěr verb to listen
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '耳' v)
9. ěr particle placed at the end of a sentence to express a decisive meaning
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '耳' particle 1)

Contained in

• 外耳 outer ear
• 隔墙有耳(隔牆有耳) the walls have ears
• 耳刮子 a slap on one's face; a cuff
• 拭目倾耳(拭目傾耳) to watch and listen attentively
• 人工耳蜗(人工耳蝸) cochlear implant
• 竖起耳朵(豎起耳朵) to prick up one's ears; to strain to hear
• 当耳旁风(當耳旁風) to treat (what somebody says) as wind past your ear; to completely disregard
• 耳鼻咽喉 ear nose and throat; otolaryngology
• 耳温枪(耳溫槍) ear thermometer
• 耳廓狐 fennec; Vulpes zerda
• 耳膜 eardrum; tympanum (of the middle ear); tympanic membrane
• 中耳炎 inflammation of middle ear; otitis media
• 口耳相传(口耳相傳) to teach orally
• 耳环(耳環) earring ; an ear or moon shaped drinking vessel
• 耳挖勺 earpick; curette
• 双耳旁(雙耳旁) name of Kangxi radical 163; 170
• 耳钉(耳釘) stud earring
• 咬耳朵 to whisper in somebody's ear
• 土耳其旋转烤肉(土耳其旋轉烤肉) Turkish döner kebab
• 白耳奇鹛(白耳奇鶥) white-eared sibia (Heterophasia auricularis)
• 马耳东风(馬耳東風) the east wind blowing in a horse's ear; words one pays no heed to
• 隔壁有耳 walls have ears
• 疾雷不及塞耳 a bolt of thunder claps there is no time to block one's ears
• 耳痛 earache
• 焦耳 joule
• 耳璫 an earring
• 耳塞 earplug; earphone
• 耳提面命 to give sincere advice ; to exhort earnestly
• 栗耳凤鹛(栗耳鳳鶥) Indochinese yuhina (Yuhina torqueola)
• 交耳 to whisper in someone's ear
• 日耳曼语(日耳曼語) Germanic language
• 蓝耳病(藍耳病) porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS); blue-ear swine fever
• 双耳刀(雙耳刀) name of Kangxi radical 163; 170
• 耳麦(耳麥) headphones; earphones
• 抓耳挠腮(抓耳撓腮) to tweak one's ears and scratch one's cheeks (as an expression of anxiety, delight, frustration etc)
• 红耳鹎(紅耳鵯) red-whiskered bulbul (Pycnonotus jocosus)
• 褐耳鹰(褐耳鷹) shikra (Accipiter badius)
• 面红耳赤(面紅耳赤) flushed with anger (or excitement)
• 木耳 wood ear; edible tree fungus
• 西南栗耳凤鹛(西南栗耳鳳鶥) striated yuhina (Yuhina castaniceps)
• 耳畔 ears
• 头戴式耳机(頭戴式耳機) headphones
• 附耳 to approach somebody's ear (to whisper)
• 耳洞 pierced ear
• 内耳道(內耳道) internal auditory meatus (canal in temporal bone of skull housing auditory nerves)
• 同传耳麦(同傳耳麥) simultaneous interpretation headset
• 蓝耳拟啄木鸟(藍耳擬啄木鳥) blue-eared barbet (Megalaima australis)

Also contained in

日耳曼语族 、 土耳其 、 希耳伯特 、 儋耳郡

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 《晉世家》 House of Jin Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 81
• 《張耳陳餘列傳》 Biographies of Zhang Er and Chen Yu Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 69
• 卷三十二 張耳陳餘傳 Volume 32: Zhang Er and Chen Yu Book of Han 漢書 — count: 61
• 《耳部》 Ěr Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 50
• 卷十四 魏書十四 程郭董劉蔣劉傳 Volume 14: Book of Wei 14 - Biographies of Cheng, Dong, Guo, Liu, Jiang, and Liu Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 33
• 卷四十七 Scroll 47 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 32
• 卷二十九 魏書二十九 方技傳 Volume 29: Book of Wei 29 - Biographies of fangshis and artisans Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志 — count: 32
• 卷三十四 韓彭英盧吳傳 Volume 34: Han, Peng, Ying, Lu and Wu Book of Han 漢書 — count: 32
• 《淮陰侯列傳》 Biography of the Marquis of Huaiyin Records of the Grand Historian 史記 — count: 30
• 卷二十三 Scroll 23 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 29

Collocations

• 重耳 (重耳) 大戎狐姬生重耳 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 莊公 Lord Zhang — count: 23
• 耳聴 (耳聴) 四曰耳聽 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 秋官司寇 第五 5. Office of Autumn and Minister of Justice — count: 8
• 子耳 (子耳) 子耳 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 襄公 Lord Xiang — count: 8
• 聪耳 (聰耳) 故唯毋以聖王爲聰耳明目與 — Mozi 墨子, 卷三 尚同下 Book 3 - Identification with the Superior III — count: 7
• 充耳 (充耳) 褎如充耳 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧邶‧旄丘 Lessons from the states - Odes of Bei - Mao Qiu — count: 6
• 可耳 (可耳) 唯官山海為可耳 — Guanzi 管子, 海王第七十二 Chapter 72: King of the Sea — count: 6
• 耳明 (耳明) 故唯毋以聖王爲聰耳明目與 — Mozi 墨子, 卷三 尚同下 Book 3 - Identification with the Superior III — count: 5
• 义耳 (義耳) 義耳義耳 — Mozi 墨子, 卷十三 魯問 Book 13 - Lu's Question — count: 4
• 卑耳 (卑耳) 踰太行與卑耳之貉 — Guanzi 管子, 匡君小匡第二十 Chapter 20: Kuang Jun Xiao Kuang — count: 4
• 为重耳 (為重耳) 為重耳也 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 3