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吵 (chǎo): meaning and stroke order

吵 (chǎo) means to quarrel, to make a noise, noisy, to disturb by making a noise.

吵

Simplified
吵
Traditional
吵 (same form)
Pinyin
chǎo

Stroke order of 吵

吵

  • chǎo to quarrel; to make a noise
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 吵

  1. chǎo
    • to quarrel
    • to make a noise
    • noisy
    • to disturb by making a noise

Radical and structure

吵
Radical 口 (Kangxi radical 30) · 7 strokes · 口 on the left, 少 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 吵

吵 in our stories

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  • 邓强不但没有改,还在网上跟她吵了起来。半年以后,饭店就关门了。

    Dèng Qiáng búdàn méiyǒu gǎi hái zài wǎngshang gēn tā chǎo le qǐlai bàn nián yǐhòu fàndiàn jiù guānmén le

    Instead of changing anything, Deng Qiang started a row with her online. Six months later the restaurant closed.

    From the story A second chance HSK 5

  • 父亲却慢慢伸过手来,轻轻拍着她的背,用沙哑的声音唱起了那首歌:“雷公雷公你别吵,我家宝宝要睡觉。”

    fùqīn què mànmàn shēn guò shǒu lái qīngqīng pāi zhe tā de bèi yòng shāyǎ de shēngyīn chàng qǐ le nà shǒu gē Léigōng Léigōng nǐ bié chǎo wǒ jiā bǎobao yào shuìjiào

    Her father slowly reached out, patted her back gently, and in a hoarse voice began to sing that song: "Thunder god, thunder god, don't make a noise, my baby needs to sleep."

    From the story The song in the thunderstorm HSK 7–9 · Level 8

  • “这是我三十岁那年,我父亲摔的。那天我们大吵了一架,他气得把碗往地上一扔,之后半年,我们谁也没理谁。”

    zhè shì wǒ sānshí suì nà nián wǒ fùqīn shuāi de nà tiān wǒmen dà chǎo le yí jià tā qì de bǎ wǎn wǎng dì shàng yì rēng zhīhòu bànnián wǒmen shéi yě méi lǐ shéi

    "My father smashed this the year I turned thirty. We had a huge row that day; he was so angry he threw the bowl on the floor, and for six months afterwards neither of us spoke to the other."

    From the story Mending the bowl HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 吵

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).