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捣蛋
dǎo​dàn

to make trouble

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
捣蛋 搗蛋 dǎo//dàn
to make trouble
To cause trouble or be mischievous; to stir up trouble or disrupt others without reason.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
4.32 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
1.45 per million

Cross-References

Variant of

  • 倒蛋 dǎo​dàn

Synonym

  • 捣乱 dǎo​luàn
  • 作怪 zuò​guài

Same as

  • 炒蛋 chǎo​dàn

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)