洗耳恭听 xǐ'ěrgōngtīng to listen with respectful attention Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 洗耳恭听 洗耳恭聽 xǐ'ěrgōngtīng to listen with respectful attention verb Literally "to wash one's ears and listen respectfully"; used as a polite expression to show one is paying close attention or as an invitation for someone else to speak. Frequency Movie subtitles 3.76 per million appears in 2% of films Written text 0.391 per million Cross-References Synonym 洗耳谛听 xǐ'ěrdìtīng Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
洗耳恭听 洗耳恭聽 xǐ'ěrgōngtīng to listen with respectful attention verb Literally "to wash one's ears and listen respectfully"; used as a polite expression to show one is paying close attention or as an invitation for someone else to speak. Frequency Movie subtitles 3.76 per million appears in 2% of films Written text 0.391 per million Cross-References Synonym 洗耳谛听 xǐ'ěrdìtīng Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
