瞎闹

瞎鬧
xiānào
verb #34,469

Meanings

  1. 1 to fool around
  2. 2 to make a senseless scene
  3. 3 to behave foolishly / mess about

Examples

Bié xiānào le, rènzhēn zuò zuòyè.
Stop messing around and do your homework seriously.
Háizi men zài yuànzi lǐ xiānào le yī xiàwǔ.
The kids fooled around in the courtyard the whole afternoon.

Tips

usage
here doesn't mean 'blind' — it's an adverb meaning 'recklessly / pointlessly / blindly' that prefixes verbs to suggest 'doing X without sense'. So 瞎闹 = 'making noise/trouble for no good reason'. Same pattern in 瞎说 (xiā shuō, talking nonsense), (xiā gǎo, messing around), (xiā xiǎng, thinking pointless things).
register
Colloquial. The set phrase 瞎闹 ('stop messing around') is what Chinese parents say to their kids hundreds of times a year.

Stroke Order

xiā
nào