耳
ěr HSK4

ear

耳 ěr
ear noun
the organ of hearing in humans and animals

他由于长期在噪音环境下工作，耳有些聋。

tā yóu​yú cháng​qī zài zào​yīn huán​jìng xià gōng​zuò, ěr yǒu​xiē lóng.

He is somewhat deaf because of working in a noisy environment for a long time.

and that is all modal particle
a final particle in Classical Chinese used to express 'nothing more' or 'and that is all'

尽力而为耳。

jìn​lì'ér​wéi ěr.

It is simply doing one's best.

handle noun
an ear-shaped handle or protrusion on an object, such as a vessel

这只鼎的两个耳已经残缺了。

zhè zhī dǐng de liǎng gè ěr yǐ​jīng cán​quē le.

The two handles of this tripod are already broken.

Frequency
Character
Written text
887th most common 196.1 per million
Movie subtitles
1,102nd most common 84.6 per million appears in 34% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
18.8 per million appears in 5% of films
Written text
44.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+8033

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)