麻烦 Traditional form: 麻煩 Pinyin (reading): máfan Definitions: trouble; inconvenience inconvenient; troublesome; annoying to bother sb; to put sb to trouble Characters: 麻 - hemp, flax, sesame; numb 烦 - to bother, to trouble, to vex Traditional characters: 麻 - hemp, flax, sesame; numb 煩 - to bother, to trouble, to vex