充耳不闻
chōng'ěr​bù​wén

to turn a deaf ear

  • created sense approved 充耳不闻/充耳不聞 · chōng'ěr​bù​wén · to turn a deaf ear — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    充耳不闻 / 充耳不聞

    chōng'ěr​bù​wén

    to turn a deaf ear

    to block one's ears and not listen; used as an idiom to describe intentionally ignoring someone's advice or showing total indifference to a situation

    充 (literal) → 充 · chōng · to fill 耳 (literal) → 耳 · ěr · ear 不 (literal) → 不 · bù · not 闻 (literal) → 闻/聞 · wén · to hear

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

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