Radical 口

7 strokes

聽

mouth 口 (5) + axe 斤 (240) = listen 听

听见 (214) tīngjiàn to hear

听说 (67) tīngshuō to hear of; people say (that)

At the mouth of the cave he was working away with an axe (to clear the trees which had blocked it) when he thought he heard something and stopped to listen. / A tingle ran up the giant’s spine.