闹 鬧
闹鬧 in English
- noisy / cacophonous / to make noise / to disturb / to vent (feelings) / to fall ill / to have an attack (of sickness) / to go in (for some activity) / to joke
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 鬧, the traditional character: 闹 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Small seal script
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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别闹事。
Don't make trouble.
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周围环境怎么样？静不静？夜晚闹不闹？
How's the neighborhood? Quiet? Noisy at night?
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因为闹铃没有响，所以我继续睡下去了。
I overslept because my alarm didn't go off.
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她在无理取闹。
She's asking for the impossible.
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您卖闹钟吗？
Do you sell alarm clocks?
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昨天闹钟没响，Kurt也就没醒过来。
Yesterday the alarm clock didn't go off and Kurt didn't wake up.
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被闹钟唤醒没有被鸟唤醒的好。
Much better to be woken by the birds than by an alarm.
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这间房子闹鬼。
This house is haunted.