HSK 6 · Adjectives

嘈杂 cáozá “noisy” in Chinese

Traditional 嘈雜

What 嘈杂 means

  1. noisy
  2. raucous
  3. clamorous

How to say 嘈杂

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale嘈cáo2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale杂zá2nd tone, rising

嘈杂 in a sentence

  1. 在这么嘈杂的环境中无法学习。

    Zài zhème cáozá de huánjìng zhōng wúfǎ xuéxí.

    You can’t study in such a noisy environment.

    Sentence #1413679 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 嘈杂 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 嘈 (cáo) with each of its parts in a different colour
嘈cáobustling
  • 口mouth · kǒuMeaning part
  • 曹ministers · cáoSound part

口 hints at the meaning (mouth); 曹 (cáo) hints at the sound. Compare it with cáo.

The character 杂 (zá) with each of its parts in a different colour
杂zámixed
  • 九nine · jiǔ
  • 木tree · mù

How to write 嘈杂

嘈 14 strokes · 杂 6 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 嘈杂

Words with 杂

复杂fùzá · complicated杂志zázhì · magazine夹杂jiāzá · to be mixed with杂技zájì · acrobatics杂交zájiāo · to hybridise

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FAQs

嘈杂 (cáozá) means “noisy” or “raucous”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it cáozá: cáo with a 2nd tone, then zá with a 2nd 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, 嘈杂 is written 嘈雜. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type caoza with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 嘈杂 from the suggestions. Typing caoza into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
嘈杂 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.