Chinese symbol for “inconvenience”
麻烦
má fan
Traditional: 麻煩
trouble; inconvenience; inconvenient; troublesome; annoying; to bother sb; to put sb to trouble
The closest CC-CEDICT match for inconvenience is 麻烦 (má fan), defined as: trouble; inconvenience; inconvenient; troublesome; annoying; to bother sb; to put sb to trouble.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “inconvenience”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 劳烦 (勞煩) | láo fán | to inconvenience; to trouble (sb with a request) |
| 委屈 | wěi qu | wronged; aggrieved; to inconvenience; to put (sb) at a disadvantage; to do sb wrong |
| 添麻烦 (添麻煩) | tiān má fan | to cause trouble for sb; to inconvenience |
| 添乱 (添亂) | tiān luàn | (coll.) to cause trouble for sb; to inconvenience |
| 不方便 | bù fāng biàn | inconvenience; inconvenient |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 麻烦.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大麻 | dà má | hemp (Cannabis sativa); cannabis |
| 麻将 (麻將) | má jiàng | mahjong; measure word: 局 (jú), 副 (fù) |
| 麻醉 | má zuì | anesthesia; to anesthetize; (fig.) to corrupt (sb's mind); to enervate; to numb the mind (to escape from harsh reality) |
| 麻木 | má mù | numb; insensitive |
| 麻雀 | má què | sparrow; (dialect) mahjong |
| 烦恼 (煩惱) | fán nǎo | to be worried; to be distressed |
| 厌烦 (厭煩) | yàn fán | bored; fed up with sth; sick of sth |
| 烦躁 (煩躁) | fán zào | jittery; twitchy |
See also: Japanese symbol for “inconvenience”.
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.