听上去 (聽上去)
tīng shàng qu
Pinyin

Definition

听上去 (聽上去)
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tīng shàng qu
  1. to sound (difficult, worthwhile etc)
  2. to seem

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

上
shǎng
上班
shàng bān
  1. 1 to go to work
  2. 2 to be on duty
  3. 3 to start work
  4. 4 to go to the office
去
qù
  1. 1 to go
  2. 2 to go to (a place)
  3. 3 (of a time etc) last
  4. 4 just passed
  5. 5 to send
  6. 6 to remove
  7. 7 to get rid of
  8. 8 to reduce
  9. 9 to be apart from in space or time
  10. 10 to die (euphemism)
  11. 11 to play (a part)
  12. 12 (when used either before or after a verb) to go in order to do sth
  13. 13 (after a verb of motion indicates movement away from the speaker)
  14. 14 (used after certain verbs to indicate detachment or separation)
晚上
wǎn shang
  1. 1 evening
  2. 2 night
  3. 3 classifier: 个 gè
  4. 4 in the evening
上下
shàng xià
  1. 1 up and down
  2. 2 top and bottom
  3. 3 old and new
  4. 4 length
  5. 5 about

Idioms (20)

一哭二闹三上吊
yī kū èr nào sān shàng diào
  1. 1 to make a terrible scene (idiom)
  2. 2 to throw a tantrum
一条绳上的蚂蚱
yī tiáo shéng shàng de mà zha
  1. 1 lit. grasshoppers tied together with a piece of string (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. people who are in it together for better or worse
  3. 3 people who will sink or swim together
三天不打，上房揭瓦
sān tiān bù dǎ , shàng fáng jiē wǎ
  1. 1 three days without a beating, and a child will scale the roof to rip the tiles (idiom)
  2. 2 spare the rod, spoil the child
上一次当，学一次乖
shàng yī cì dàng , xué yī cì guāi
  1. 1 to take sth as a lesson for next time (idiom)
  2. 2 once bitten, twice shy
上下其手
shàng xià qí shǒu
  1. 1 to raise and lower one's hand (idiom); to signal as conspiratorial hint
  2. 2 fig. conspiring to defraud

Sample Sentences

嗯，这个听上去不错！
ng4 ，zhè ge tīngshàngqù bùcuò ！
Hmm, that sounds quite good!
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听上去不错，我们应该去哪里报名？
tīngshàngqù bùcuò ，wǒmen yīnggāi qù nǎlǐ bàomíng ？
It's sounds good. Where should we go to sign up?
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肉鸡？听上去好好玩啊。
ròujī ？tīng shàngqù hǎo hǎowán a 。
Botnet? That sounds like fun.
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沙尘暴，听上去就很恐怖。
shāchénbào ，tīngshàngqù jiù hěn kǒngbù 。
Sandstorms? Just the sound of it is horrible.
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哪对夫妻没有磕磕碰碰？其实都不是什么大事，只是冠伟的嗓门儿大，所以听上去好像很严重。
nǎ duì fūqī méiyǒu to squabble ？qíshí dōu bù shì shénme dàshì ，zhǐshì Guànwěi de sǎngménr dà ，suǒyǐ tīngshàngqù hǎoxiàng hěn yánzhòng 。
Don't all husbands and wives quarrel from time to time? Actually, it was never anything big. It's just that Guan Wei had a loud voice, so it sounded very serious.
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听上去我还是觉得“抓周”更有趣。对了，听说中国人生日时喜欢把所有的亲戚朋友都请到饭店里大吃一顿，这是真的吗？
tīngshàngqù wǒ hái shì juéde “zhuāzhōu ”gēng yǒuqù 。duìle ，tīngshuō zhōngguórén shēngrì shí xǐhuan bǎ suǒyǒu de qīnqīpéngyǒu dōu qǐngdào fàndiàn lǐ dàchī yī dùn ，zhè shì zhēn de me ？
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