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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

哭闹

kūnào

to bawl, disturbing others

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to bawl, disturbing others

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 哭闹 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 哭闹 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

今早又是在孩子的哭闹声中醒来的。jīn zǎo yòu shì zài hái zi de kū nào shēng zhōng xǐng lái de。

This morning, I woke up yet again to the sound of crying children.

医院里的小孩哭闹不止。yī yuàn lǐ de xiǎo hái kū nào bù zhǐ。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 哭闹.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 哭闹.

Directly before

  • 的哭闹1
  • 小孩哭闹1

Directly after

  • 哭闹声中1
  • 哭闹不止1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 哭闹

What does 哭闹 mean in Chinese?

哭闹 (kūnào) means to bawl, disturbing others.

How do you pronounce 哭闹?

哭闹 is pronounced kūnào.

Is 哭闹 an HSK word?

哭闹 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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