HSK 6 · Verbs

扰乱 rǎoluàn “to disturb” in Chinese

Traditional 擾亂

What 扰乱 means

  1. to disturb
  2. to disrupt
  3. to perturb
  4. to harass

How to say 扰乱

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale扰rǎo3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale乱luàn4th tone, falling

扰乱 in a sentence

  1. 不要因为吃得太多而扰乱胃的正常消化。

    Bú yào yīnwèi chī de tài duō ér rǎoluàn wèi de zhèngcháng xiāohuà.

    Don’t upset your normal digestion by eating too much.

    Sentence #3580020 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 扰乱 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 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.

The character 乱 (luàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
乱luànin confusion or disorder
  • 舌tongue · shé
  • 乚second (cyclical) form of 乙 · yǐ

How to write 扰乱

扰 7 strokes · 乱 7 strokes

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

Words related to 扰乱

Words with 扰

打扰dǎrǎo · to disturb干扰gānrǎo · to disturb骚扰sāorǎo · to harass

Words with 乱

乱luàn · in confusion or disorder捣乱dǎoluàn · to make trouble混乱hùnluàn · chaos胡乱húluàn · carelessly

More words: Common Verbs

确立quèlì · to establish缺席quēxí · to be absent屈服qūfú · to yield染rǎn · to dye惹祸rěhuò · to cause trouble容纳róngnà · to hold揉róu · to rub散布sànbù · to spread

FAQs

扰乱 (rǎoluàn) means “to disturb” or “to disrupt”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it rǎoluàn: rǎo with a 3rd tone, then luàn with a 4th 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, 扰乱 is written 擾亂. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type raoluan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 扰乱 from the suggestions. Typing raoluan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
扰乱 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.