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; 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)
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 (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: (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 , Subdomain: Archaeology
   Notes: For example, the handles of a vase (ABC 'ěr' 耳 n)

Contained in

• 土耳其语(土耳其語) Turkish
• 阿耳忒弥斯(阿耳忒彌斯) Artemis (Greek goddess of the moon)
• 发明耳目(發明耳目) sharpens sight and hearing
• 不绝于耳(不絕於耳) (of sound) to never stop; to fall incessantly on the ear; to linger on
• 莫耳 mole
• 面红耳赤(面紅耳赤) flushed with anger (or excitement)
• 软耳朵(軟耳朵) credulous person; credulous
• 隔墙有耳(隔牆有耳) the walls have ears
• 耳子 handle (on a pot)
• 耳璫 an earring
• 耳蜗(耳蝸) cochlea
• 炮耳 trunnion; protrusions on either side of a cannon facilitating mounting and vertical pivot
• 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.
• 耳挖勺 earpick; curette
• 耳机(耳機) headphones; earphones; telephone receiver
• 耳闻(耳聞) to hear
• 耳发(耳髮) (men) sideburns; (women) lengths of hair that hang down over the temples
• 耳挖子 earpick; curette
• 附耳 to approach somebody's ear (to whisper)
• 震耳 ear-splitting
• 咬耳朵 to whisper in somebody's ear
• 耳鸣(耳鳴) tinnitus; ringing in the ears
• 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)
• 刺耳 ear-piercing
• 耳光 slap on the face
• 土耳其人 a Turk; Turkish person
• 当耳旁风(當耳旁風) to treat (what somebody says) as wind past your ear; to completely disregard
• 马耳东风(馬耳東風) the east wind blowing in a horse's ear; words one pays no heed to
• 双耳旁(雙耳旁) name of Kangxi radical 163; 170
• 疾雷不及塞耳 a bolt of thunder claps there is no time to block one's ears
• 耳目 eyes and ears; attention; information; knowledge; spies
• 单耳旁(單耳旁) name of dan er radical
• 耳温枪(耳溫槍) ear thermometer
• 右耳旁 right ear radical; name of variant of Kangxi radical 163
• 苏格兰折耳猫(蘇格蘭摺耳貓) Scottish Fold
• 头戴式耳机(頭戴式耳機) headphones
• 卷耳 mouse ear
• 耳鬓厮磨(耳鬢廝磨) heads rubbing together; very close relationship
• 左耳旁 left ear radical; name of variant of Kangxi radical 163
• 焦耳 joule
• 马耳他里拉(馬耳他里拉) Maltese lira
• 聒耳 raucous; ear-splitting
• 长耳公(長耳公) a donkey
• 左耳刀 name of Kangxi radical 170
• 耳掴子(耳摑子) slap
• 倾耳(傾耳) to prick up one's ear; to listen attentively
• 倾耳而听(傾耳而聽) to listen attentively
• 眼瞎耳聋(眼瞎耳聾) to be deaf and blind

Also contained in

吉耳吉特 、 波义耳 、 李耳

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
• 卷三十四 韓彭英盧吳傳 Volume 34: Han, Peng, Ying, Lu and Wu Book of Han 漢書 — 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
• 《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
• 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
• 耳听 (耳聽) 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
• 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
• 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