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The traditional character "聽", constructed with the "ear" radical alongside components implying attentive perception, has consistently denoted the act of hearing, with its form undergoing natural stylistic reductions in common handwriting over time. In contrast, the simpler graph "听" originally functioned as an independent character meaning to laugh or smile, a usage documented in classical texts but which gradually faded. Through a process of graphical borrowing driven by phonetic similarity and the desire for a less complex form, "听" was fully adopted to represent the concept of listening, thereby completely displacing its earlier meaning, and its structure, now comprising the "mouth" radical and the phonetic component "斤", reflects this reassigned role rather than its etymological origins.
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我在听音乐。
她喜欢听广播。
我们听老师讲课。
你听过这首歌吗？
请仔细听我的建议。
听完新闻后，我明白了。
如果你认真听，就能学会。
听说明天开会，但还没确认。