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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 听书

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
听书 tīng shū - to listen to a performance of pinghua storytelling 評話|评话[ping2hua4]
- to listen to an audiobook

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - - 86,142 60,191

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
yǐn- smile (archaic)
tīng- to listen to; to hear
- to heed; to obey
- a can (loanword from English "tin")
- classifier for canned beverages
- to let be; to allow (Taiwan pr. [ting4])
- (literary) to administer; to deal with (Taiwan pr. [ting4])
shū- abbr. for 書經|书经[Shu1 jing1]
shū- book
- letter
- document
- CL:本[ben3],冊|册[ce4],部[bu4]
- to write

Other Words Containing 听书

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo