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骚扰

sāo rǎo

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

骚扰 (sāo rǎo) means "to disturb; to cause a commotion; to harass". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 骚扰 means

1. to disturb
2. to cause a commotion
3. to harass

The characters in 骚扰

• 骚sāo(bound form) to disturb; to disrupt; flirty; coquettish; abbr. for 离骚
• 扰rǎoto disturb

Example sentences

• 我们军队总是被游击队骚扰。
  Wǒmen jūnduì zǒngshì bèi yóujīduì sāorǎo.
  Our troops were constantly attacked by the guerrillas.
• 让你的儿子别来骚扰我的女儿。
  Tell your son to quit harassing my daughter.
• Tom不想在Mary读书时骚扰她。
  T om bù xiǎng zài Mary dúshū shí sāorǎo tā.
  Tom didn't want to interrupt Mary while she was studying.
• 市长一家人一整天不断遭到了恐吓电话的骚扰。
  Shìzhǎng yījiārén yī zhěngtiān bù duàn zāodào le kǒnghè diànhuà de sāorǎo.
  The mayor's family was harassed with threatening phone calls all day.

Words starting with 骚扰

• 骚扰客蚤sāo rǎo kè zǎoXenopsylla vexabilis

Words containing 骚扰

• 性骚扰xìng sāo rǎosexual harassment
• 跟踪骚扰gēn zōng sāo rǎo(law) to stalk (sb)

Sounds the same

Read sāo rǎo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 搔扰to disturb; to harass

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