HSK 6 · Society

骚扰 sāorǎo “to harass” in Chinese

Traditional 騷擾

What 骚扰 means

  1. to harass
  2. to disturb
  3. harassment
  4. to cause a commotion

How to say 骚扰

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale骚sāo1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale扰rǎo3rd tone, dipping

骚扰 in a sentence

  1. 让你的儿子别来骚扰我的女儿。

    Ràng nǐ de érzi bié lái sāorǎo wǒ de nǚ'ér.

    Tell your son to stop harassing my daughter.

    Sentence #13890572 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 市长一家人一整天不断遭到了恐吓电话的骚扰。

    Shìzhǎng yì jiā rén yì zhěngtiān búduàn zāodào le kǒnghè diànhuà de sāorǎo.

    The mayor’s family was harassed by threatening phone calls all day long.

    Sentence #470266 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 骚扰 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 骚 (sāo) with each of its parts in a different colour
骚sāoto disturb; to disrupt
  • 马horse · mǎ
  • 蚤flea · zǎo
The character 扰 (rǎo) with each of its parts in a different colour
扰rǎoto disturb
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒuMeaning part
  • 尤especially · yóuSound part

扌 hints at the meaning (hand); 尤 (yóu) hints at the sound. Compare it with rǎo.

How to write 骚扰

骚 12 strokes · 扰 7 strokes

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

Words related to 骚扰

Words with 骚

牢骚láosāo · complaint

Words with 扰

打扰dǎrǎo · to disturb干扰gānrǎo · to disturb扰乱rǎoluàn · to disturb

More words: Society & Law

群众qúnzhòng · the masses驱逐qūzhú · to expel人道réndào · humane人质rénzhì · hostage申报shēnbào · to declare审查shěnchá · to examine生效shēngxiào · to take effect盛行shèngxíng · to be popular

FAQs

骚扰 (sāorǎo) means “to harass” or “to disturb”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it sāorǎo: sāo with a 1st tone, then rǎo with a 3rd tone. 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, 骚扰 is written 騷擾. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type saorao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 骚扰 from the suggestions. Typing saorao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
骚扰 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.