Please listen to me.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
洗耳恭听
to listen with respectful attention
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to listen with respectful attention
02
(a polite request to sb to speak)
03
we are all ears
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 洗耳恭听 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 洗耳恭听 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.
I'm all ears.
No published English translation for this sentence.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 洗耳恭听.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 洗耳恭听.
Directly before
- 你洗耳恭听1
- 我洗耳恭听1
- 请洗耳恭听1
Directly after
- No repeated neighbour in the corpus.
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 洗耳恭听
What does 洗耳恭听 mean in Chinese?
洗耳恭听 (xǐěrgōngtīng) means to listen with respectful attention.
How do you pronounce 洗耳恭听?
洗耳恭听 is pronounced xǐěrgōngtīng.
Is 洗耳恭听 an HSK word?
洗耳恭听 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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