{"path":"/entry/88149","title":"听而不闻 / 聽而不聞 (tīng ér bù wén) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"听而不闻 / 聽而不聞 (tīng ér bù wén): to hear but not react (idiom) · to turn a deaf ear. Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":88149,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["听而不闻"],"TRADITIONAL":["聽而不聞"]}},"phonetic":"tīng ér bù wén","phoneticKey":"ting1 er2 bu4 wen2","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to hear but not react ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]},{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to turn a deaf ear","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"to ignore deliberately","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["VERB"],"frequency":48726,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[],"origins":[{"literal":null,"content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From the Great Learning (《大學》) in the Book of Rites","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"心不在焉，视而不见，听而不闻，食而不知其味。此谓修身在正其心。","traditional":"心不在焉，視而不見，聽而不聞，食而不知其味。此謂修身在正其心。"},"phonetic":"Xīn bùzài yān, shì ér bù jiàn, tīng ér bù wén, shí ér bùzhī qí wèi. Cǐ wèi xiūshēn zài zhèng qí xīn.","english":"When the mind is not present, we look without seeing; we hear without understanding; and we eat and do not know the taste of what we eat. This is what is meant by saying that the cultivation of the person depends on the rectifying of the mind.","ref":"The Book of Rites, c. 4ᵗʰ – 2ⁿᵈ century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}