HSK 6 · Verbs

无理取闹 wúlǐqǔnào “to make trouble for no reason” in Chinese

Said as wúlíqǔnào

Traditional 無理取鬧

What 无理取闹 means

  1. to make trouble for no reason
  2. (idiom) to make trouble without reason
  3. to be deliberately provocative

How to say 无理取闹

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale无wú2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale理lǐ3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale取qǔ3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale闹nào4th tone, falling

Said as wúlíqǔnào. When two third tones meet, the first one rises into a second tone. You still write it with two third tones. How tone changes work

无理取闹 in a sentence

  1. 她在无理取闹。

    Tā zài wúlǐqǔnào.

    She’s making a fuss over nothing.

    Sentence #503189 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 无理取闹 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 无 (wú) with each of its parts in a different colour
无wúnot to have
  • 一one · yī
  • 尢lame · wāng
The character 理 (lǐ) with each of its parts in a different colour
理lǐtexture
  • 王king · wángMeaning part
  • 里village · lǐSound part

王 hints at the meaning (king); 里 (lǐ) hints at the sound. Compare it with lǐ.

Memory aid王 here is jade 玉: cutting jade along its grain. 里 (lǐ) gives the sound: to put in order, reason.

The character 取 (qǔ) with each of its parts in a different colour
取qǔto take
  • 耳ear · ěr
  • 又again · yòu
The character 闹 (nào) with each of its parts in a different colour
闹nàonoisy
  • 门gate · mén
  • 市city · shì

How to write 无理取闹

无 4 strokes · 理 11 strokes · 取 8 strokes · 闹 8 strokes

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无理取闹 (wúlǐqǔnào) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 无理取闹 (wúlǐqǔnào). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 无理取闹

Words with 无

无wú · not to have无聊wúliáo · bored无论wúlùn · no matter what or how无法wúfǎ · to be unable to无奈wúnài · to have no alternative无数wúshù · countless无所谓wúsuǒwèi · to not matter无赖wúlài · rogue无比wúbǐ · incomparable无耻wúchǐ · shameless

Words with 理

经理jīnglǐ · manager理解lǐjiě · to comprehend理想lǐxiǎng · an ideal理发lǐfà · to get a haircut修理xiūlǐ · to repair整理zhěnglǐ · to arrange管理guǎnlǐ · to supervise办理bànlǐ · to handle处理chǔlǐ · to handle合理hélǐ · rational

Words with 取

取qǔ · to take吸取xīqǔ · to absorb采取cǎiqǔ · to adopt or carry out (measures取消qǔxiāo · to cancel争取zhēngqǔ · to fight for录取lùqǔ · to admit (a student)索取suǒqǔ · to ask for取缔qǔdì · to ban

Words with 闹

热闹rènao · bustling with noise and excitement

More words: Common Verbs

玩弄wánnòng · to play with喂wèi · to feed (a person or animal)维持wéichí · to maintain维护wéihù · to safeguard镶嵌xiāngqiàn · to inlay衔接xiánjiē · to link up掀起xiānqǐ · to lift陷入xiànrù · to fall into

FAQs

无理取闹 (wúlǐqǔnào) means “to make trouble for no reason” or “(idiom) to make trouble without reason”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it wúlǐqǔnào: wú with a 2nd tone, then lǐ with a 3rd tone, then qǔ with a 3rd tone, then nào with a 4th tone. In speech it sounds like wúlíqǔnào. When two third tones meet, the first one rises into a second tone. You still write it with two third tones. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 无理取闹 is written 無理取鬧. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type wuliqunao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 无理取闹 from the suggestions. Typing wuliqunao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
无理取闹 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.