聋

• ピンイン: lóng
• 漢字の分解: 聋 = 龙 (phonetic: lóng) + 耳 (ear — indicates the ear is impaired)

意味

耳が聞こえない（聴覚に障害がある）

Used medically and colloquially. Can appear in compound words like 聋哑 (deaf-mute) and 聋人 (deaf person). Also used metaphorically: 装聋作哑 means to feign ignorance or play dumb. Increasingly, disability-aware language prefers person-first or neutral terms.

例文

1. 他因幼年时高烧引发了严重的听力损伤，导致双耳近乎全聋。
2. 那位聋哑艺术家用手语和肢体表达情感，创作出令观众动容的舞台作品。
3. 他对批评充耳不闻，仿佛装聋作哑，令同事们深感无奈。

使い方ガイド

場面: medical, disability, idiom

トーン: neutral

正しい言い方

• 学校为聋生开设了手语课程，帮助他们更好地与外界沟通。(The school offers sign language courses for deaf students to help them communicate better with the outside world.)
• 他装聋作哑，对领导的询问一言不发，明显是在刻意回避责任。(He feigned ignorance and said nothing in response to his supervisor's questions, clearly trying to evade responsibility.)

避ける言い方

• 随意将聋用于调侃他人 — 聋 refers to a genuine medical condition; using it casually as an insult is disrespectful (Don't use 聋 casually to mock someone — it refers to a real medical condition and using it as an insult is disrespectful)

起源と歴史

聋 = 龙 (phonetic component: lóng) + 耳 (ear) — the semantic component 耳 indicates the impaired organ.

文化的背景

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal