ear

Origin & mnemonic

This radical derives from a pictograph of the human ear in oracle-bone and seal script. The original form depicts the external ear and earlobe.

Mnemonic: The ear radical looks like a sideways ear with the upper curve as the outer ear and a lobe below.

• 耳ěr🔊

  ear

  6 strokes

• 耶yé🔊

  interrogative particle (classical)

  8 strokes

• 耵dīng🔊

  used in 耵聹|耵聍[ding1 ning2]

  8 strokes

• 耷dā🔊

  (literary) big ears

  9 strokes

• 耻chǐ🔊

  (bound form) shame; humiliation; disgrace

  10 strokes

• 耸sǒng🔊

  to excite

  10 strokes

• 耼dān🔊

  variant of 聃[dan1]

  10 strokes

• 耽dān🔊

  to indulge in

  10 strokes

• 耿gěng🔊

  (literary) bright; brilliant

  10 strokes

• 聂niè🔊

  to whisper

  10 strokes

• 聊liáo🔊

  (coll.) to chat

  HSK 6

  11 strokes

• 聋lóng🔊

  deaf

  HSK 7

  11 strokes

• 职zhí🔊

  office

  11 strokes

• 聃dān🔊

  ears without rim

  11 strokes

• 聆líng🔊

  (literary) to hear; to listen

  11 strokes

• 聍níng🔊

  used in 耵聹|耵聍[ding1 ning2]

  11 strokes

• 联lián🔊

  (bound form) to ally oneself with; to unite; to combine; to join

  12 strokes

• 聎tiāo🔊

  tinnitus

  12 strokes

• 聒guō🔊

  raucous

  12 strokes

• 圣shèng🔊

  variant of 聖|圣[sheng4]

  13 strokes

• 聘pìn🔊

  to employ; to appoint

  HSK 7

  13 strokes

• 闻wén🔊

  to hear

  HSK 2

  14 strokes

• 聚jù🔊

  to assemble; to gather (transitive or intransitive)

  HSK 4

  14 strokes

• 聝guó🔊

  cut off the left ear of the slain

  14 strokes

• 聡cōng🔊

  old variant of 聰|聪[cong1]

  14 strokes

• 聦cōng🔊

  variant of 聰|聪[cong1]

  15 strokes

• 聨lián🔊

  variant of 聯|联[lian2]

  15 strokes

• 聩kuì🔊

  born deaf

  15 strokes

• 聪cōng🔊

  (literary) acute (of hearing)

  15 strokes

• 聮lián🔊

  old variant of 聯|联[lian2]

  16 strokes

• 聱áo🔊

  difficult to pronounce

  16 strokes

• 声shēng🔊

  sound

  HSK 5

  17 strokes

• 聼tīng🔊

  variant of 聽|听[ting1]

  19 strokes

• 听tīng🔊

  to listen to; to hear

  HSK 1

  22 strokes