鬧

See also: 閙 and 闹

Translingual

Alternative forms

Note that the Ming typeface used in Japan and Korea as well as the Kangxi dictionary uses a vertical dot for the upper component of 亠 which is slightly different from modern Chinese scripts which uses a slanting 丶 dot for the upper component of 亠 in 市.

Han character

鬧 (Kangxi radical 191, 鬥+5, 15 strokes, cangjie input 中弓卜中月 (LNYLB), four-corner 7722₇, composition ⿵鬥市(GHTKV) or ⿵鬥巿(J))

Derived characters

• 𤂗

Related characters

• 閙 (Variant traditional form)
• 闹 (Simplified Chinese)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1457, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 45639
• Dae Jaweon: page 1989, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4515, character 7
• Unihan data for U+9B27

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Chinese

trad.		鬧
simp.		闹
alternative forms		閙／闹

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nào (nao⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): naau⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): nau
• Northern Min (KCR): nāu
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): nāu / lāu / lā

  (Teochew, Peng'im): nao⁶ / nao⁷ / lao⁷

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: nào
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: nào
    • Wade–Giles: nao⁴
    • Yale: nàu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: naw
    • Palladius: нао (nao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: naau⁶
    • Yale: naauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: naau⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: nao⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /naːu̯²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: nau
    • Hakka Romanization System: nau
    • Hagfa Pinyim: nau⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /nau̯⁵⁵/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: nāu
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nau⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: nāu
    • Tâi-lô: nāu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: nau
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /nãu²²/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /nãu³³/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lāu
    • Tâi-lô: lāu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lau
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /lau⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /lau³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /lau²²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lā
    • Tâi-lô: lā
    • Phofsit Daibuun: la
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /la³³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /la⁴¹/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /la²²/

Note:

• nāu/lāu - literary;
• lāu (Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Taiwan) - used in 鬧熱;
• lā - vernacular (also written as 抐 or 撓).

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: nao⁶ / nao⁷ / lao⁷
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: nău / nāu / lāu
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /nau³⁵/, /nau¹¹/, /lau¹¹/

Note: lao7 - vernacular (used in 鬧熱).

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 鬧
Mandarin	Beijing	/nɑu⁵¹/
	Harbin	/nau⁵³/
	Tianjin	/nɑu⁵³/
	Jinan	/nɔ²¹/
	Qingdao	/nɔ⁴²/
	Zhengzhou	/nau³¹²/
	Xi'an	/nau⁴⁴/
	Xining	/nɔ²¹³/
	Yinchuan	/lɔ¹³/ 搞～弄 /nɔ¹³/ 熱～
	Lanzhou	/lɔ¹³/
	Ürümqi	/nɔ²¹³/
	Wuhan	/nau³⁵/
	Chengdu	/nau¹³/
	Guiyang	/nao²¹³/
	Kunming	/nɔ²¹²/
	Nanjing	/lɔo⁴⁴/
	Hefei	/lɔ⁵³/
Jin	Taiyuan	/nau⁴⁵/ /ɣau⁴⁵/ ～表
	Pingyao	/nɔ³⁵/
	Hohhot	/nɔ⁵⁵/
Wu	Shanghai	/nɔ²³/
	Suzhou	/næ³¹/
	Hangzhou	/nɔ¹³/
	Wenzhou	/nuɔ²²/
Hui	Shexian	/lɔ²²/
	Tunxi	/lo¹¹/
Xiang	Changsha	/lau⁵⁵/ /lau¹¹/
	Xiangtan	/naɯ²¹/
Gan	Nanchang	/lɑu²¹/
Hakka	Meixian	/nau⁵³/
	Taoyuan	/nɑu⁵⁵/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/nau²²/
	Nanning	/nau²²/
	Hong Kong	/nau²²/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/nau²²/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/nɑu²⁴²/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/nau⁴⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/nau³⁵/ /lau³⁵/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/nau³⁵/ 吵～ /nau³³/ ～熱

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*rnaːws/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	鬧
Reading #	1/1
No.	9378
Phonetic component	鬧
Rime group	宵
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	橈
Old Chinese	/*rnaːws/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 鬧

1. to be noisy
2. to create a disturbance
3. (Cantonese) to scold

See also

• (to scold): 話／话 (waa6, “to tell someone off”)

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

鬧

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• Go-on: にょう (nyō)^{←ねう (neu, historical)}
• Kan-on: どう (dō)^{←だう (dau, historical)}
• Kun: さわがしい (sawagashii, 鬧しい)

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Korean

Hanja

鬧 • (ryo>yo, nyo>yo) (hangeul 료>요, 뇨>요, revised ryo>yo, nyo>yo, McCune–Reischauer ryo>yo, nyo>yo, Yale lyo>yo, nyo>yo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 鬧 (náo, náu, nháo, nao, nào)

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References

• Nom Foundation