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嚷

rǎng

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 character level 7-9 Character

嚷 (rǎng) means "to shout; to bellow; to make a big deal of sth". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 嚷 means

1. to shout
2. to bellow
3. to make a big deal of sth
4. to make a fuss about sth

Example sentences

• 为何大声喧嚷？
  Wèihé dàshēng xuān rǎng?
  Why are you speaking loudly?

Words starting with 嚷

• 嚷嚷rāng rangto argue noisily; to shout; to make widely known
• 嚷劈rǎng pīshout oneself hoarse

Words containing 嚷

• 叫嚷jiào rǎngto shout; to bellow one's grievances
• 吵吵嚷嚷chǎo chǎo rǎng rǎngto make an (unnecessary) racket (idiom)
• 吵嚷chǎo rǎngto make a racket; clamour; uproar

Characters built on 襄

These share the phonetic component 襄 (xiāng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 壤rǎng(bound form) soil; earth; (literary) the earth (contrasted with heaven 天
• 攘rǎng(literary) to push up one's sleeves; (literary) to reject; to resist…
• 穰rángabundant; stalk of grain
• 瓤rángpulp (of fruit); sth inside a covering; bad
• 曩nǎngin former times
• 禳rángsacrifice for avoiding calamity

Characters that look like 嚷

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 壤rǎng(bound form) soil; earth; (literary) the earth (contrasted with heaven 天
• 馨xīnfragrant
• 嚼jiáoto chew; also pr. jué
• 攘rǎng(literary) to push up one's sleeves; (literary) to reject; to resist…
• 獾huānbadger
• 嚯huò(onomatopoeia) expressing admiration or surprise; (onomatopoeia) sound of a laugh

Sounds the same

Read rǎng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 壤(bound form) soil; earth; (literary) the earth (contrasted with heaven 天
• 攘(literary) to push up one's sleeves; (literary) to reject; to resist…

Where 嚷 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Persuasion, Advice & Shortage (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read rǎng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.