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HSK 4 - Medium
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麻烦 (麻煩)

má fan

Definition

sorry (to bother you)
sorry to trouble you
trouble
troublesome
inconvenient
麻烦你帮我看着我的东西，我很快回来。(

Sorry to trouble you), Watch my things, I'll be right back.
inconvenience
to bother (somebody)
to trouble (somebody)
麻烦问一下，去上海的

G7011 在几号候车室？Excuse me, from what platform does the G7011 train to Shanghai leave?
to annoy
annoying
complicated

麻烦 is used a lot when you want to politely ask someone something or to ask someone to do something for you; we tend not to translate it in English.

Character Decomposition

Related words (4)

to create difficulties; to invite trouble; to be troublesome

to look for trouble

to cause trouble for sb; to inconvenience

zì zhǎo má fan

to ask for trouble; to invite difficulties

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