(rǎo) - disturb, bother in Mandarin
rǎoTraditional: 扰
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Translation
disturb, bother
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the hand radical 扌marks an action done to someone, and 尤 (yóu) supplies the sound, giving the meaning of to disturb or trouble.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 扌(hand radical) + 尤 (yóu, phonetic)
Stroke order
扰
Examples
，。
Sorry to bother you.
。
Please do not disturb me.
？
I am not disturbing you, am I?
，。
Sorry to disturb your rest.
乱。
The noise outside disturbed my rest.
扰 (rǎo) means disturb or bother and almost always shows up in 打扰 (dǎ rǎo).
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 扰.
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