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麻烦

má fan 2–5

trouble; inconvenience; inconvenient; troublesome; annoying; to bother sb; to put sb to trouble

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 2.0 level 4 · HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
麻 · 烦
Syllables
2
má fan
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,492

Part of speech: an,a,v,n

Character by character

  • 麻má11 strokesHSK 3hemp, jute, flax; sesame; Kangxi radical 200
  • 烦fán10 strokesHSK 3 traditional 煩bother, vex, trouble; troublesome

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 你们有大麻烦了。

    Nǐ men yǒu dà má fán le

    You're in big trouble.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 麻烦. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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