耳 ěr
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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; NCCED '耳' 1) -
ěr
noun
Kangxi radical 128
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
Notes: Ear (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7) -
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 (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) -
ěr
noun
an ear-shaped object
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (NCCED '耳' 2) -
ěr
adjective
on both sides
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (NCCED '耳' 3) -
ěr
noun
a vessel handle
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Archaeology
Notes: For example, the handles of a vase (ABC 'ěr' 耳 n)
Contained in
- 耳郭 outer ear; auricle; pinna
- 眼观六路耳听八方(眼觀六路耳聽八方) the eyes watch six roads and the ears listen in all directions; to be observant and alert
- 疾雷不及塞耳 a bolt of thunder claps there is no time to block one's ears
- 卷耳 mouse ear
- 俯首帖耳 bowed head and ears glued; docile and obedient; at somebody's beck and call
- 口耳相传(口耳相傳) to teach orally
- 爱耳日(愛耳日) Ear Care Day
- 双耳旁(雙耳旁) name of Kangxi radical 163; 170
- 耳熟 to sound familiar; familiar-sounding
- 长耳鸮(長耳鴞) long-eared owl (Asio otus)
- 耳光 slap on the face
- 阿耳忒弥斯(阿耳忒彌斯) Artemis (Greek goddess of the moon)
- 耳聋(耳聾) deaf
- 耳片 tab (of a web browser)
- 侧耳(側耳) to bend an ear (to); to listen
- 耳鼻咽喉 ear nose and throat; otolaryngology
- 单耳旁(單耳旁) name of dan er radical
- 土耳其石 turquoise (gemstone)
- 耳提面命 to give sincere advice ; to exhort earnestly
- 当耳边风(當耳邊風) to treat (what somebody says) as wind past your ear; to completely disregard
- 逆耳 to be unpleasant to hear
- 耳膜 eardrum; tympanum (of the middle ear); tympanic membrane
- 耳套 earmuff
- 耳钉(耳釘) stud earring
- 栗耳短脚鹎(栗耳短腳鵯) brown-eared bulbul (Hypsipetes amaurotis)
- 银耳(銀耳) white fungus; silver tree-ear fungus
- 耳麦(耳麥) headphones; earphones
- 交头接耳(交頭接耳) to whisper in each other's ears
- 长耳公(長耳公) a donkey
- 打耳光 to slap on the face; to box somebody's ears
- 雪耳 snow fungus (Tremella fuciformis); white fungus
- 竖起耳朵(豎起耳朵) to prick up one's ears; to strain to hear
- 耳蜗(耳蝸) cochlea
- 耳熟能详(耳熟能詳) what is listened to thoroughly can be repeated in detail
- 耳挖子 earpick; curette
- 耳璫 an earring
- 中耳 middle ear
- 苍耳(蒼耳) Siberian cocklebur
- 眼瞎耳聋(眼瞎耳聾) to be deaf and blind
- 附耳 to approach somebody's ear (to whisper)
- 耳发(耳髮) (men) sideburns; (women) lengths of hair that hang down over the temples
- 苏格兰折耳猫(蘇格蘭摺耳貓) Scottish Fold
- 接耳交头(接耳交頭) to whisper in each other's ears
- 银耳噪鹛(銀耳噪鶥) silver-eared laughingthrush (Trochalopteron melanostigma)
- 斯佩耳特小麦(斯佩耳特小麥) spelt (Triticum spelta)
- 耳听为虚,眼见为实(耳聽為虛,眼見為實) Take what you hear to be false, only believe it when you see it . Don't believe what people tell you until you see if for yourself.
- 耳软(耳軟) credulous
- 焦耳 joule
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Word is mentioned most frequently in
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- 《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
- 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
- 义耳 (義耳) 義耳義耳 — Mozi 墨子, 卷十三 魯問 Book 13 - Lu's Question — count: 4
- 熊耳 (熊耳) 熊耳 — Book of Documents 尚書, 夏書 禹貢 Xia Shu - Tribute of Yu — count: 3