吵
chǎo HSK3

argue

吵 chǎo
noisy verb
making or characterized by a lot of noise

这里太吵了，我们换个地方说话吧。

zhè​lǐ tài chǎo le, wǒ​men huàn gè dì​fang shuō​huà ba.

It's too noisy here; let's go somewhere else to talk.

disturb verb
to annoy or wake someone up by making noise

别吵，孩子好不容易才睡着。

bié chǎo, hái​zi hǎo​bù​róng​yì cái shuì​zháo.

Be quiet; the child finally fell asleep with great difficulty.

quarrel verb
to argue or dispute loudly and angrily

他们两个为了谁去洗碗正在屋里大吵。

tā​men liǎng gè wèi​le shéi qù xǐ wǎn zhèng​zài wū​li dà​chǎo.

The two of them are having a big argument in the room over who will do the dishes.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,040th most common 34.7 per million
Movie subtitles
1,121st most common 81.2 per million appears in 34% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
62.6 per million appears in 23% of films
Written text
28.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+5435

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)