鬧
nào HSK4

noisy; quarrel

闹 (鬧) nào
disturb verb
to make a noise, create a disturbance, or vent one's feelings

大家都在休息，别再闹了。

dà​jiā dōu zài xiū​xi, bié zài nào le.

Everyone is resting; stop making a fuss.

engage in verb
to go in for some activity or cause something to take place

那一带正在闹饥荒。

nà yī​dài zhèng​zài nào jī​huāng.

A famine is ravaging that area.

noisy adjective
noisy or cacophonous

这条街很闹，不适合看书。

zhè tiáo jiē hěn nào, bù shì​hé kàn shū.

This street is very noisy and not suitable for reading.

fall ill verb
to suffer from a sickness or have a sudden attack of illness

他最近经常闹肚子。

tā zuì​jìn jīng​cháng nào dù​zi.

He has been having stomach trouble frequently lately.

joke verb
to joke, play, or tease someone

他是跟你闹着玩的，别往心里去。

tā shì gēn nǐ nào​zhe​wán de, bié wǎng xīn​li qù.

He was just teasing you; don't take it to heart.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,336th most common 91.8 per million
Movie subtitles
1,253rd most common 65.3 per million appears in 31% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
36.3 per million appears in 15% of films
Written text
56.2 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Simplified
闹
Strokes
15
Unicode
U+9B27

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