Chinese symbol for “heckle”

起哄

qǐ hòng

Traditional: 起鬨

to heckle; rowdy jeering; to create a disturbance

The closest CC-CEDICT match for heckle is 起哄 (qǐ hòng), defined as: to heckle; rowdy jeering; to create a disturbance.

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Characters and stroke order

起 qǐ

to begin, to initiate; to rise, to stand up

radical 156 ⾛ · 10 strokes

哄 hòng

to coax; to beguile, to cheat, to deceive; tumult, uproar

radical 30 ⼝ · 9 strokes

Traditional forms

鬨 hòng

Related words

Other words that share a character with 起哄.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
起来 (起來)	qǐ lai	to stand up; to get up; also pr. [qi3lai2]
一起	yī qǐ	(in) the same place; together; in company (with)
引起	yǐn qǐ	to give rise to; to lead to; to cause; to arouse
看起来 (看起來)	kàn qǐ lai	seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appears to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be
想起	xiǎng qǐ	to recall; to think of
乱哄哄 (亂哄哄)	luàn hōng hōng	noisy and in disarray; in an uproar
哄骗 (哄騙)	hǒng piàn	to deceive; to cheat
哄抬	hōng tái	to artificially inflate; to bid up (the price)

See also: Japanese symbol for “heckle”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.