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闹事

nào shì

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 鬧事

闹事 (nào shì) means "to cause trouble; to create a disturbance". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 闹事 means

1. to cause trouble
2. to create a disturbance

The characters in 闹事

• 闹nàonoisy; cacophonous; to make noise
• 事shìmatter; thing; item

Example sentences

• 别闹事。
  Bié nàoshì.
  Don't make trouble.

Sounds the same

Read nào shì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 闹市downtown area; city center

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read nào shì correctly.
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