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惹
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Definitions
- 1. to provoke
- 2. to irritate
- 3. to vex
- 4. to stir up
- 5. to anger
- 6. to attract (troubles)
- 7. to cause (problems)
Example Sentences
1 shown梅格有時 惹 惱肯。
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 惹
Peranakan Chinese (Baba-Nyonya), an ethnic group of Chinese residing in the Malay peninsula (also known as Straits Chinese)
lit. to pick the flowers and trample the grass (idiom)
to attract attention
see 拈花惹草[niān huā rě cǎo]
to stir up trouble
Nyonya
to cause trouble
to invite disaster
to court (trouble); to attract (attention)
to create difficulties
to stir up trouble
to stir up trouble
to stir up trouble
see 沾花惹草[zhān huā rě cǎo]
to attract attention
to provoke (esp. annoyance, disgust etc)
provoke, incite
motherfucker (loanword)
Yogyakarta, city of Java, Indonesia, and capital of the Special Region of Yogyakarta 日惹特區|日惹特区[rì rě tè qū]
not to be trifled with
see 招風惹草|招风惹草[zhāo fēng rě cǎo]
to provoke anger
annoying
accommodating
to fondle the flowers and trample the grass (idiom)
to offend
to stir up trouble
to provoke
stir up the fire and you get burnt (idiom); to get one's fingers burnt
Special Region of Yogyakarta, region of Java, Indonesia
(idiom) to bring trouble on oneself
to annoy people
can't afford to offend
irritable
to stir up the fire
(coll.) to irritate