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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for: 麻烦

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
麻烦 má fan - trouble; inconvenience
- inconvenient; troublesome; annoying
- to bother sb; to put sb to trouble

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
4 3 455 2,531 1,745

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
- surname Ma
- generic name for hemp, flax etc
- hemp or flax fiber for textile materials
- sesame
- CL:縷|缕[lu:3]
- (of materials) rough or coarse
- pocked
- pitted
- to have pins and needles or tingling
- to feel numb
- hemp (variant of 麻[ma2])
fán- to feel vexed
- to bother
- to trouble
- superfluous and confusing
- edgy

Other Words Containing 麻烦

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
麻烦 4 3 455 2,531 1,745
惹麻烦 - - 3,911 - -
找麻烦 - - 7,247 38,063 27,348
添麻烦 - - 8,014 - -
自找麻烦 - - 13,221 69,069 50,707