You were eavesdropping.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
偷听
to eavesdrop
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to eavesdrop
02
to monitor (secretly)
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 偷听 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 偷听 appears in 4 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Tom's eavesdropping.
I didn't mean to eavesdrop.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 偷听.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 偷听.
Directly before
- 在偷听2
- 不是故意偷听1
- 没想偷听1
Directly after
- 偷听你们1
- 偷听的1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 偷听
What does 偷听 mean in Chinese?
偷听 (tōutīng) means to eavesdrop.
How do you pronounce 偷听?
偷听 is pronounced tōutīng.
Is 偷听 an HSK word?
偷听 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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