| 所闻 | suǒ wén | heard / what one hears |  |
| 传来 | chuán lái | (of a sound) to come through / to be heard / (of news) to arrive |  |
| 闻言 | wén yán | to have heard what was said | |
| 见闻 | jiàn wén | what one has seen and heard / knowledge / one's experience | |
| 听闻 | tīng wén | to listen / to hear what sb says / news one has heard | |
| 鸦雀无声 | yā què wú shēng | lit. crow and peacock make no sound / absolute silence (idiom) / not a single voice can be heard / absolute silence | |
| 万籁俱寂 | wàn lài jù jì | not a sound to be heard (idiom) | |
| 大鸣大放 | dà míng dà fàng | (idiom) to freely air one's views / to be heard far and wide / to attract a lot of attention | |
| 耳熟能详 | ěr shú néng xiáng | what's frequently heard can be repeated in detail (idiom) | |
| 如是我闻 | rú shì wǒ wén | so I have heard (idiom) / the beginning clause of Buddha's quotations as recorded by his disciple, Ananda (Buddhism) | |
| 朝闻夕改 | zhāo wén xī gǎi | lit. heard in the morning and changed by the evening / to correct an error very quickly (idiom) | |
| 万籁无声 | wàn lài wú shēng | not a sound to be heard (idiom) / dead silent | |
| 时有所闻 | shí yǒu suǒ wén | heard from time to time / one keeps hearing that... | |
| 视听材料 | shì tīng cái liào | evidence of material seen and heard / oral testimony | |
| 未听到 | | nothing heard | |
| 仅听到 | | heard only / H only | |
| 大鸣大放 | dà míng - dà fàng | (idiom) to freely air one's views / to be heard far and wide / to attract a lot of attention | |
| 靴子落地 | xuē zi luò dì | lit. the boot hits the floor (idiom) / fig. a much-anticipated, impactful development has finally occurred (an allusion to a joke from the 1950s in which a young man would take off a boot and throw it onto the floor, waking the old man sleeping downstairs who could then not get back to sleep until he had heard the second boot hit the floor) | |
