折騰 Simplified: 折腾 On the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list, at CEFR level C2. zhēteng ㄓㄜ ˙ㄊㄥ to toss from side to side (e.g. sleeplessly) to repeat sth over and over again to torment sb to play crazy to squander (time, money) Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0 国际中文教育中文水平等级标准, 中华人民共和国教育部, MIT