吵架
chǎojià · HSK 3
have a row/spat
💢🗯️ 吵 = mouth 口 + few 少 (noisy talk); 架 = frame/fight — a framed shouting match
吵 pairs 口 (mouth) with 少 (few/small) for the sense of noisy chatter or bickering. 架 means frame or to fight/scuffle. Together: a verbal fight — to quarrel or have a row.
吵 — mouth 口 + few/small 少
吵 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The mouth radical 口 signals meaning related to speech or sound, while 少 (shǎo) provides the phonetic cue. Together they suggest noisy chatter, hence the modern senses 'noisy,' 'to quarrel,' or 'to disturb.'
架 — wood 木 + add 加 (phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound: 木 (wood) gives the meaning, since a 架 is a wooden frame, rack, or shelf used to support things. 加 (jiā) supplies the sound. From 'wooden frame' it extended to verbs like 'to set up,' 'to prop up,' and to a measure word for framed objects such as airplanes.