A doodle I made of 聽 [tēng1 - to listen; to hear; to obey] and the man who you should be listening to!
It is composed of ear [耳] to the top left and king [王] to the bottom left. On the right is virtue [㥁] which is composed of straight or direct [直] on top and a heart [心] on the bottom. It’s beautiful and has deep meaning. You can imagine how the virtuous king will hear his people or that a virtuous servant uses both his ears and heart to listen to his king. Unlike the simplified form: 听, which is composed of a mouth [口] and a phonetic component (for Mandarin anyway), catty [斤].
How do we listen with our mouth I wonder?
Geezah, get this: http://happyjellyfish.com/web/?p=1373