流氓 (liúmáng) — hooligan; rogue; gangster

Characters in this word

Strokes: 10
Radical: 氵 — water
Made of: 氵 water 㐬 pennant
How it's built: Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

Strokes: 8
Radical: 民 — citizens, subjects
Made of: 亡 death, destruction 民 citizens, subjects
How it's built: Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound

影片没有把流氓浪漫化，而是揭示他们对社区秩序的破坏。 Yǐngpiàn méiyǒu bǎ liúmáng làngmànhuà, ér shì jiēshì tāmen duì shèqū zhìxù de pòhuài. The film does not romanticise hooligans; instead, it exposes the damage they cause to community order.
那个小流氓总是在街上大声喧哗，邻居们都很讨厌他。 Nàge xiǎo liúmáng zǒngshì zài jiē shàng dàshēng xuānhuá, línjūmen dōu hěn tǎoyàn tā. That little hooligan is always making a racket on the street, and the neighbours all dislike him.
他小时候是个小流氓，后来在老师的帮助下改过自新了。 Tā xiǎoshíhou shì ge xiǎo liúmáng, hòulái zài lǎoshī de bāngzhù xià gǎiguòzìxīn le. As a child he was a little hooligan, but later, with his teacher's help, he turned over a new leaf.