Disturb in Chinese
to disturb · HSK 4
打扰
- 打 to hit
- 扰 to disturb
他正在学习，别打扰他。 He's studying, don't disturb him.
Other ways to say disturb
More words with 打 or 扰
How do you say disturb in Chinese?
Disturb in Chinese is 打扰 (dǎ rǎo). You can also say 干扰 (gān rǎo), 吵 (chǎo).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.