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视听 (shì tīng) — (noun) seeing and hearing; what is seen and heard; (noun) public opinion; audiovisual (as in materials or equipment)

Definition

In HSK 7 it mostly appears in technical/educational compounds like 视听设备 ('audiovisual equipment') and 视听教材 ('audiovisual materials'). The 'public opinion' sense is a literary extension meaning 'what the public sees and hears'.

noun
seeing and hearingwhat is seen and heardpublic opinionaudiovisual (as in materials or equipment)

Examples

  • 视听。
    Zhè tào shì tīng shè bèi xiào guǒ hěn hǎo.
    This set of audiovisual equipment works very well.
  • 视听。
    Lǎo shī yòng shì tīng jiào cái jiào wǒ men zhōng wén.
    The teacher uses audiovisual materials to teach us Chinese.
  • 视听。
    Zhè jiàn shì yǐn qǐ le guǎng fàn de shì tīng guān zhù.
    This matter has attracted widespread public attention.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
联合liánhéCoordinate

Two parts of equal weight, alike or opposite in meaning, standing side by side.

视shìsee
听tīnghear

“视” is seeing and “听” is hearing, so the word covers what is seen and heard.

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 視; 视 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
見見jiànsee
Sound part声符shēngfú
示
示shì視shì
Same sound today

The story is about the traditional form 視: it combines 見, meaning see, with 示, which gives the sound shì.

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Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 聽; 听 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 聽 has 耳 (ear) and 口 (mouth), used for listening; the simplified 听 is a later shortened form unrelated to that picture.

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