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牢骚

láo sāo

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 牢騷

牢骚 (láo sāo) means "discontent; complaint; to complain". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 牢骚 means

1. discontent
2. complaint
3. to complain

The characters in 牢骚

• 牢láo(literary) pen; fold (for livestock); prison; jail; firm; secure; fast
• 骚sāo(bound form) to disturb; to disrupt; flirty; coquettish; abbr. for 离骚

Example sentences

• 停止发牢骚吧。
  Tíngzhǐ fā láosāo ba.
  Stop grumbling.
• 汤姆老是发牢骚。
  Tāngmǔ lǎoshi fāláosāo.
  Tom complains all the time.
• 每人心里都有牢骚。
  Měirén xīnli dōu yǒu láosāo.
  Everyone has something that's troubling him.
• 行动比语言更有说服力。别发牢骚多做事。
  Xíngdòng bǐ yǔyán gèng yǒushuōfúlì. bié fāláosāo duō zuòshì.
  Actions speak louder than words. Stop complaining and do it.
• 我猜我能老实地坐在这更久，不发一句牢骚，而不像你。
  I bet I can sit here longer without saying a thing than you can.

Words containing 牢骚

• 发牢骚fā láo sāoto whine; to be grouchy
• 满腹牢骚mǎn fù láo sāolit. belly full of complaints (idiom); discontent; always moaning and complaining

Where 牢骚 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · láo–yuè (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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