He pretends to be deaf.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
听不见
not be able to hear
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
not be able to hear
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 听不见 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 听不见 appears in 13 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I can't hear you.
He pretended not to be listening.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 听不见.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 听不见.
Directly before
- 我听不见4
- 假装听不见3
- 都听不见1
- 但听不见1
- 他装听不见1
Directly after
- 听不见老板1
- 听不见你1
- 听不见的1
- 听不见电视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 听不见
What does 听不见 mean in Chinese?
听不见 (tīngbujiàn) means not be able to hear.
How do you pronounce 听不见?
听不见 is pronounced tīngbujiàn.
Is 听不见 an HSK word?
听不见 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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