吵 · chǎo
argue, dispute; disturb, annoy
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
argue, dispute; disturb, annoy
- Mandarin
- chǎo
- Cantonese
- caau2
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 吵 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
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Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+5435
- Radical
- 口 · 30
- Strokes
- 7 · Unihan
- Residual
- 4
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
7 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 吵
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- mjiewX · 亡沼 反切 · #1686
- Middle Chinese
- tsrhaewX · 初爪 反切 · #1710
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 11095 · mjiewX = 效開三上宵明 · tsrhaewX = 效開二上肴初
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- chǎo
- kCantonese
- caau2
- kDefinition
- argue, dispute; disturb, annoy
- kTotalStrokes
- 7
- kRSUnicode
- 30.4
- kGradeLevel
- 2
- kTGH
- 2013:735
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- miǎo,chǎo,chāo,chào 10588.080
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- chāo 0126.010 · chǎo 0129.020
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- chāo 039.170 · chǎo 040.110
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- chǎo(85)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- chǎo粵caau2 chāo粵caau2
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 亡沼 初爪
- Kangxi positions
- 0179.080
- Guangyun positions
- 298.28 301.07
- Cangjie
- RFH
- Four-corner
- 6902.0