Results for “耳”

lit. to cover one's ears whilst stealing a bell / to deceive oneself / to bury one's head in the sand (idiom)

spelt (Triticum spelta) (loanword)

wood ear / jelly ear (edible fungus) / CL:朵[duǒ]

Malabar spinach (Basella alba)

(bird species of China) brown-eared bulbul (Hypsipetes amaurotis)

(bird species of China) striated yuhina (Staphida castaniceps)

(bird species of China) chestnut-eared bunting (Emberiza fucata)

trunnion / protrusions on either side of a cannon facilitating mounting and vertical pivot

lit. to treat (what sb says) as wind past your ear / fig. to completely disregard

lit. to treat (what sb says) as wind past your ear / fig. to completely disregard

white fungus (Tremella fuciformis) / snow fungus

(bird species of China) white-eared sibia (Heterophasia auricularis)

to be deaf and blind (idiom)

see 耳聽為虛，眼見為實|耳听为虚，眼见为实[ěr tīng wéi xū , yǎn jiàn wéi shí]

lit. the eyes watch six roads and the ears listen in all directions / to be observant and alert (idiom)

see 眼觀四面，耳聽八方|眼观四面，耳听八方[yǎn guān sì miàn , ěr tīng bā fāng]

lit. the eyes observe all sides and the ears listen in all directions (idiom) / fig. to be observant and alert

(bird species of China) short-eared owl (Asio flammeus)

lit. as the autumn breeze passes the ear (idiom) / not in the least concerned

to intentionally reinterpret a spoken expression as if one had misheard it, for the sake of humor (often, it is a phrase in a foreign language twisted into a similar-sounding phrase in one's native language with a completely different meaning) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 空耳 "soramimi")

(bird species of China) red-whiskered bulbul (Pycnonotus jocosus)

(dialect) henpecked / to be under one's wife's thumb

raucous / ear-splitting

fat / plump / chubby

(chemistry) mole (loanword) (Tw)

bushel (eight gallons)

Siberian cocklebur (botany)

(bird species of China) blue-eared barbet (Psilopogon cyanotis)

porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) / blue-ear swine fever

(bird species of China) blue-eared kingfisher (Alcedo meninting)

(bird species of China) shikra (Accipiter badius)

(bird species of China) striated yuhina (Yuhina castaniceps)

words still ringing in one's ears (idiom)

to prick up one's ears / to strain to hear sth

credulous person / credulous

unpleasant to hear / grates on the ear (of home truths)

speech that grates on the ear (idiom) / bitter truths / home truths (that one does not want to hear)

tipsy and merry (idiom)

white fungus (Tremella fuciformis) / silver tree-ear fungus

(bird species of China) silver-eared laughingthrush (Trochalopteron melanostigma)