# 聴 listen to

耳 (ear) + (UFO) + (bottomheart)
★★★☆☆
17 strokes
DUPE SOLO

## Onyomi

CHOU | No one listens to Margaret CHOU.

## Mnemonic

| With all your heart, take your ear and listen to what the UFO has to say

## Kunyomi

き＊く | deliberately listen to for minutes at a time (to a preacher's sermon, a college lecture, a shitty techno song) ★★★☆☆

## Jukugo

盗聴(とうちょう) | wiretap ☆☆☆☆☆ 盗 (steal by stealth) + 聴 (listen to) = 盗聴 (wiretap) wiretap, bug

## Lookalikes

| Meaning | Hint | Radical
--- | --- | --- | ---
聴 | listen to | EAR | 耳
壊 | break | GROUND | 土
懐 | nostalgia | HEART | 心
徳 | virtue | GO | 行

You listen with your EARS.

You break a TV on the hard GROUND.

You are nostalgic with your HEART.

You GO along the path of virtue.

## Synonyms

listen 聴 聞く
too intimate, too personal ねほりはほり聴く なれなれしい 気安くxxx