HSK 6 · Adjectives

啰唆 luōsuo “long-winded” in Chinese

Traditional 囉唆

What 啰唆 means

  1. long-winded
  2. wordy
  3. troublesome
  4. pesky
  5. to talk endlessly
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to go on and on

How to say 啰唆

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale啰luō1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own唆suoneutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

啰唆 in a sentence

  1. 他说话太啰唆了。

    Tā shuōhuà tài luōsuo le.

    He’s so long-winded.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 好了，别啰唆了，快走吧。

    Hǎo le, bié luōsuo le, kuài zǒu ba.

    All right, stop going on about it; let’s go.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 啰唆 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 啰 (luō) with each of its parts in a different colour
啰luōfinal exclamatory particle
  • 口mouth · kǒuMeaning part
  • 罗gauze · luóSound part

口 hints at the meaning (mouth); 罗 (luó) hints at the sound. Compare it with luō.

The character 唆 (suō) with each of its parts in a different colour
唆suōto incite; to instigatelight in 啰唆
  • 口mouth · kǒuMeaning part
  • 夋to dawdleSound part

口 hints at the meaning (mouth); 夋 () hints at the sound. Compare it with suo.

How to write 啰唆

啰 11 strokes · 唆 10 strokes

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

Words related to 啰唆

More words: Adjectives

吝啬lìnsè · stingy立体lìtǐ · three-dimensional理直气壮lǐzhíqìzhuàng · bold and confident (being in the right)隆重lóngzhòng · grand络绎不绝luòyìbùjué · in an endless stream忙碌mánglù · busy茫茫mángmáng · vast盲目mángmù · blind

FAQs

啰唆 (luōsuo) means “long-winded” or “wordy”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it luōsuo: luō with a 1st tone, then suo with a neutral 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, 啰唆 is written 囉唆. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type luosuo with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 啰唆 from the suggestions. Typing luosuo into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
啰唆 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 written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.