Chinese symbol for “nagging”
唠叨
láo dao
Traditional: 嘮叨
to prattle; to chatter away; to nag; garrulous
The closest CC-CEDICT match for nagging is 唠叨 (láo dao), defined as: to prattle; to chatter away; to nag; garrulous; nagging.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 唠叨.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 唠唠叨叨 (嘮嘮叨叨) | láo lao dāo dāo | to chatter; to babble |
| 唠嗑 (嘮嗑) | lào kē | (dialect) to chat; to gossip |
| 叨唠 (叨嘮) | dāo lao | to be chattersome; to talk on and on without stopping |
| 念叨 | niàn dao | to talk about often; to reminisce about |
| 叨叨 | dāo dao | to chatter; to hog the conversation |
| 絮絮叨叨 | xù xu dāo dāo | long-winded; garrulous |
| 絮叨 | xù dao | long-winded; garrulous |
See also: Japanese symbol for “nagging”.
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.