空耳

Traditional form:

空耳

Pinyin (reading):

kōng'ěr

Definitions:

• 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")

Characters:

• 空 - hollow, empty, deserted, bare
• 耳 - ear; to hear, to hear of; handle

Traditional characters:

• 空 - hollow, empty, deserted, bare
• 耳 - ear; to hear, to hear of; handle