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renao

热闹RUH-now[ʐɤ̂ nau̯]

Pronunciation: Speaker: CanonNi · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

crowded and loud, the good kind — the commotion you came for

Closest in English: lively, liveliness, bustle. None of them covers it.

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The characters are hot and noisy, and together they make crowding a compliment: a full restaurant is renao, an empty one is a warning. Chinese even has a verb for going to look at it, kan renao, standing at the edge of a crowd for the noise alone.

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  1. Which language is it from?Mandarin
  2. Which feeling does it carry?Warm, loud and full of people
  3. Where would you hear it?A night market with every stall going
  4. What does it mean?Crowded and loud in the best way

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