ear-piercing

sweet-sounding; beautiful (of sound)

with one's own ears

(loanword) joule

to intentionally reinterpret a spoken expression as if one had misheard it, for the sake of humor (often, it is a phrase in a foreign language twisted into a similar-sounding phrase in one's native language with a completely different meaning) (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 空耳 "soramimi")

middle ear

to bend an ear (to); to listen

(literary) to listen attentively

inner ear

flange; lug

(loanword) gill (unit)

to block one's ears (not wishing to hear)

outer ear

(of a song or tune) catchy

to remove earwax with an ear pick

to refuse to listen

wood ear; jelly ear (edible fungus); CL:朵[duo3]

Lao Zi

trunnion; protrusions on either side of a cannon facilitating mounting and vertical pivot

Nie Er (1912-1935), musician and composer of the PRC national anthem March of the Volunteer Army 義勇軍進行曲|义勇军进行曲

raucous; ear-splitting

Siberian cocklebur (botany)

(chemistry) mole (loanword) (Tw)

unpleasant to hear; grates on the ear (of home truths)

to remove earwax with an ear pick

white fungus (Tremella fuciformis); silver tree-ear fungus

to approach sb's ear (to whisper)

snow fungus (Tremella fuciformis); white fungus

ear-splitting

pleasing to the ear

to be the acknowledged leader (from the custom of a prince holding a plate on which lay the severed ears of a sacrificial bull at an alliance ceremony)

jug ears

Boyle (name); Robert Boyle (1627-91), British and Irish scientist and pioneer chemist

Robert Boyle (1627-1691), English chemist

white fungus (Tremella fuciformis); snow fungus

bushel (eight gallons)

sb with preternaturally good hearing (in fiction); fig. a well-informed person

Auricularia auricula-judae, an edible fungus

(idiom) (of speech, music etc) vulgar; offensive to the ear

(of sound) to never stop; to fall incessantly on the ear; to linger on

to whisper to one another's ear

bowed head and ears glued (idiom); docile and obedient; at sb's beck and call

variant of 如雷貫耳|如雷贯耳[ru2 lei2 guan4 er3]

lit. like thunder piercing the ear; a well-known reputation (idiom)

loyal advice jars on the ears (idiom)

variant of 想當然爾|想当然尔[xiang3 dang1 ran2 er3]

to watch and listen attentively

lit. as the autumn breeze passes the ear (idiom); not in the least concerned

Nathaniel