Loud in Chinese (Mandarin): 吵 (chǎo)

Use it in a sentence

The characters in 吵

• 吵

  Noisy; also to quarrel. 口 (mouth) is on the left and 少 (shǎo) on the right.

  7 strokes

Third tone. 吵 also means to argue: 吵架 (chǎojià). Too noisy is 太吵了 (tài chǎo le).

More examples with 吵

• 教室里很吵。

  教室裡很吵。

  Jiàoshì li hěn chǎo.

  The classroom is noisy.

• 别吵了，宝宝在睡觉。

  別吵了，寶寶在睡覺。

  Bié chǎo le, bǎobao zài shuìjiào.

  Be quiet, the baby is sleeping.

How to write 吵 in Chinese

Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.