To Listen To
To Hear, To Listen
transitive verb, godan verb
Because the hiragana ends with an う sound, you know this word is a verb. The kanji itself means listen and the verb vocab version is to listen to or to hear.
The meaning is really similar to 聞く, right? The reading is the same.
森くんって、洋楽聴くの？
Do you listen to Western music, Mori-kun?
ヘッドホンで音楽を聴いていたので、話しかけられたのに気づかなかったんです。
I was listening to music with headphones, so I didn't notice when someone tried to talk to me.
その癒し系の曲を聴いてると、眠くなってきたよ。
Listening to that soothing song, I've started to get sleepy.