听起来

聽起來
tīngqilai
to sound like

CEDICT

Homographs

听起来 tīngqilǎi

Examples

听起来很诱人

That sounds very tempting.

Source: Tatoeba

听起来不错。

Sounds good.

Source: Tatoeba

听起来好棒。

It sounds absolutely wonderful.

Source: Tatoeba

听起来很有趣。

That sounds really interesting.

That sounds interesting.

This sounds very interesting.

Source: Tatoeba

听起来不像汤姆。

It doesn't sound like Tom.

Source: Tatoeba

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Entry Composition

1 听 tīng
  1. to listen to; to hear
  2. to heed; to obey
  3. a can (loanword from English "tin")
  4. classifier for canned beverages
  5. to let be; to allow (Taiwan pr. tìng)
  6. (literary) to administer; to deal with (Taiwan pr. tìng)
2 起来 qilai
  1. (after a verb) indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state
  2. indicating an upward movement (e.g. after 站 zhàn)
  3. indicating completion
  4. (after a perception verb, e.g. 看 kàn) expressing preliminary judgment
  5. also pr. qǐlai