noisy / cacophonous / to make noise / to disturb / to vent (feelings) / to fall ill / to have an attack (of sickness) / to go in (for some activity) / to joke

= + : Napoleon (n) opened a shop (市) just inside the aorta's entrance (ao4) and it is bustling with noise (闹). His supermarket is so successful because he installed a trap door (门) in the floor above through which new customers keep falling.

鬧 character breakdown

market / city / CL:個|个[ge4]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a supermarket.

Sherlock Holmes (sh) started a supermarket (市) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4), but all he has for sale right now are berets (亠) and towels (巾). He should have opened it at the beach!
to fight / to struggle / to condemn / to censure / to contend / to put together / coming together

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a 斗牛士 (dou4 niu2 shi4) is a matador, who will represent 斗 when used as component.

The matador (斗) and Don Quixote (d) are fighting (斗) in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4) about who may use the bathroom next. The matador yields a holy cross (十) as a weapon, while Don Quixote (d) wisely chose a blossom (⺀) to cushion the crosses' blows.

Characters with 鬧 as component

鬧 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 鬧

to act willfully and make a scene / to make trouble
farce / CL:場|场[chang3],齣|出[chu1],幕[mu4]
to cause trouble / to create a disturbance
to be difficult with sb / to provoke disagreement / at loggerheads / to fall out with
downtown area / city center
to be vexed or annoyed / to feel queasy
clamorous / noisy / sensational / very exciting
(dialect) bustling / lively
see 鬧洞房|闹洞房[nao4 dong4 fang2]
see 鬧洞房|闹洞房[nao4 dong4 fang2]
noisy; to make a racket
to skylark / to play boisterously / to fool around
(neologism c. 2013) organized disruption of healthcare facilities or verbal and physical abuse of medical staff, by an aggrieved patient or proxies such as family members or hired thugs, typically aimed at obtaining compensation
noisy / a racket
gongs and drums overture to a Chinese opera / to create a disturbance
(Internet slang) transcription of "not at all" – English words in a song promoting the 2008 Beijing Olympics sung by Huang Xiaoming 黃曉明|黄晓明[Huang2 Xiao3 ming2], who became a laughing stock in China because his pronunciation was perceived as embarrassingly bad / to be a laughing stock / to make a fool of oneself (i.e. equivalent to 鬧笑話|闹笑话[nao4 xiao4 hua5])

Sentences with 鬧

鬧 currently does not appear in any sentence.