chǎo

argue

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

少 sound component

  Sound component

shǎoshào

  

few

Definitions

 

chǎo

argue, dispute; disturb, annoy; to quarrel; to make a noise; noisy; to disturb by making a noise

Most common words with 吵
Freq.
Word
Meaning

noisy

吵架

to quarrel

争吵

to quarrel

吵闹

noisy

大吵大闹

to make a scene

Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 33.7338% of movies

1121st most common character in movies

2040th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+5435


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