rǎo
verb #14,323

Meanings

  1. 1 to disturb
  2. 2 to bother

Examples

Qǐng bùyào dǎrǎo wǒ.
Please don't disturb me.
Gānrǎo xìnhào hěn qiáng.
The interference signal is strong.

Tips

usage
Common in 打扰 (dǎrǎo, to disturb) and 干扰 (gānrǎo, to interfere).

Components

radical
shǒu
hand (radical form of 手)
Left-side hand radical, the three-stroke side form of . Indexes in the hand-action family alongside to pull, to push, to hit. To disturb is to put a hand where it isn't wanted — the radical names the meddling fingers stirring up trouble.
phonetic
yóu
especially; fault (here phonetic)
Right side supplies the sound: yóu drifted to rǎo via a regular y/r alternation with vowel and tone change. The simplified replaces the traditional phonetic with the much shorter , picked purely as a sound proxy. The fault, blame nuance of happens to suit a verb meaning to bother.

Stroke Order

rǎo