听话听声，锣鼓听音 (聽話聽聲，鑼鼓聽音)
tīng huà tīng shēng , luó gǔ tīng yīn
Pinyin

Definition

听话听声，锣鼓听音 (聽話聽聲，鑼鼓聽音)
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tīng huà tīng shēng , luó gǔ tīng yīn
  1. to understand the unspoken implications (idiom)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

声音
shēng yīn
  1. 1 voice
  2. 2 sound
  3. 3 classifier: 个 gè
观音
Guān yīn
  1. 1 Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion or Goddess of Mercy (Sanskrit Avalokiteśvara)
语音
yǔ yīn
  1. 1 speech sounds
  2. 2 pronunciation
  3. 3 colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character
  4. 4 phonetic
  5. 5 audio
  6. 6 voice
  7. 7 (Internet) to voice chat
  8. 8 voice message
音
yīn
  1. 1 sound
  2. 2 noise
  3. 3 note (of musical scale)
  4. 4 tone
  5. 5 news
  6. 6 syllable
  7. 7 reading (phonetic value of a character)
音乐
yīn yuè
  1. 1 music
  2. 2 classifier: 张 zhāng
  3. 3 classifier: 曲 qǔ
  4. 4 classifier: 段 duàn

Idioms (20)

一不做，二不休
yī bù zuò , èr bù xiū
  1. 1 don't do it, or don't rest (idiom); either give up, or go through to the end
  2. 2 Since we started, we must carry it through whatever happens.
  3. 3 in for a penny, in for a pound
一人得道，鸡犬升天
yī rén dé dào , jī quǎn shēng tiān
  1. 1 lit. when a man achieves the Dao, his poultry and dogs rise to Heaven (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to ride on sb else's success
  3. 3 Once one man gets a government position, all his cronies get in too
  4. 4 Once sb has cracked the problem, every Tom, Dick and Harry can do it
一个天南，一个地北
yī ge tiān nán , yī ge dì běi
  1. 1 to live miles apart (idiom)
一传十，十传百
yī chuán shí , shí chuán bǎi
  1. 1 news pass quickly from mouth to mouth (idiom)
  2. 2 an infectious disease spreads quickly (old meaning)
一则以喜，一则以忧
yī zé yǐ xǐ , yī zé yǐ yōu
  1. 1 happy on the one hand, but worried on the other (idiom)