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校鬧

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Mandarin · pinyin xiào nào

disruptive activities targeted at a school by an aggrieved party (neologism formed by analogy with 醫鬧 yī nào)

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校: xiào · school; military field officer
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闹: nào · quarrel; dispute hotly

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4–4 · xiao4 nao4

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