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麻烦

má fan

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 麻煩

麻烦 (má fan) means "trouble; inconvenience". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 麻烦 means

1. trouble; inconvenience
2. inconvenient; troublesome; annoying
3. to bother sb; to put sb to trouble

The characters in 麻烦

• 麻máhemp (variant of 麻
• 烦fánto feel vexed; to bother; to trouble

Example sentences

• 真麻烦。
  How annoying.
• 他有麻烦。
  He is in trouble.
• 麻烦你啦。
  Sorry to trouble you.
• 麻烦您了。
  Sorry to trouble you.
• 麻烦你了。
  Sorry to trouble you.
• 麻烦您了！
  Sorry to bother you!

Words containing 麻烦

• 添麻烦tiān má fanto cause trouble for sb; to inconvenience
• 找麻烦zhǎo má fanto look for trouble
• 惹麻烦rě má fanto create difficulties; to be troublesome; to invite trouble
• 自找麻烦zì zhǎo má fanto ask for trouble; to invite difficulties

Where 麻烦 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Problems & solutions (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read má fan correctly.
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