Chinese symbol for “nag”
纠缠
jiū chán
Traditional: 糾纏
to be in a tangle; to nag
The closest CC-CEDICT match for nag is 纠缠 (jiū chán), defined as: to be in a tangle; to nag.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “nag”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 唠叨 (嘮叨) | láo dao | to prattle; to chatter away |
| 蹇 | jiǎn | lame; cripple |
| 磨蹭 | mó ceng | to rub lightly; to move slowly; to dawdle; to dillydally |
| 挑毛病 | tiāo máo bìng | to nitpick; petty criticism |
| 碎碎念 | suì suì niàn | to sound like a broken record; to prattle |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 纠缠.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 纠纷 (糾紛) | jiū fēn | dispute |
| 纠正 (糾正) | jiū zhèng | to correct; to make right |
| 纠结 (糾結) | jiū jié | to intertwine; to band together (with); to link up (with); twisted; tangled |
| 纠葛 (糾葛) | jiū gé | entanglement; dispute |
| 纠错 (糾錯) | jiū cuò | to correct an error |
| 缠身 (纏身) | chán shēn | (of an illness, debt etc) to plague one; to bog one down; to preoccupy one |
| 缠绕 (纏繞) | chán rào | twisting; to twine |
| 缠绵 (纏綿) | chán mián | touching (emotions); lingering (illness) |
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.