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HSK
to provoke; to irritate; to upset; to stimulate; to excite / irritant
HSK 4
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  *调* | 调* | *调
to harmonize / to reconcile / to blend / to suit well / to adjust / to regulate / to season (food) / to provoke / to incite
HSK 3
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  *招* | 招* | *招
to recruit / to provoke / to beckon / to incur / to infect / contagious / a move (chess) / a maneuver / device / trick / to confess
HSK 6
to provoke laughter; silly; ridiculous
to provoke / to stir up / to incite
HSK 7-9
to provoke; provocation
HSK 7-9
to cause an accident / to be responsible for an incident / to provoke a disturbance
HSK 7-9
to collide / jerking motion / to impinge / to offend / to provoke
HSK 7-9
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  *惹* | 惹* | *惹
to provoke / to irritate / to vex / to stir up / to anger / to attract (troubles) / to cause (problems)
HSK 7-9
to entice / to arouse / to provoke
seeing riches provokes evil designs
to breed / to flourish / to cause / to provoke / to create
to provoke anger
to tease / to provoke / to play with (a child, animal etc)
a government official drives the people to revolt (idiom); a minister provokes a rebellion by exploiting the people
to provoke / to stir up (trouble) / to instigate
to amuse oneself / to clown around / to provoke laughter
to stir up the fire / fig. to provoke and offend people / to ruffle feathers
provoke, incite / stir up / arouse (attention)
to incite / to provoke / to tease
to provoke (esp. annoyance, disgust etc) / to offend / to attract (attention)
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  *撩* | 撩* | *撩
to tease / to provoke / to stir up (emotions)
to be perverse and suggestive towards the opposite sex, but shrinking back when provoked to act on it / to have perverted thoughts but no guts to actually do it / to be all talk and no action
to provoke
to provoke / to tease
to stir up / to provoke
(gaming, esp. MOBA) to recklessly enter the attack range of an enemy tower – a stationary defense structure that automatically fires on intruders – typically resulting in death / (neologism) (slang) to provoke the authorities (e.g. online) at great personal risk
to provoke / to tease
to cause trouble / to provoke a dispute
can't afford to offend / dare not provoke / difficult to deal with / insufferable
to court (trouble); to attract (attention) / to provoke (sb)
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  *趮* | 趮* | *趮
easily provoked, hasty / fierce, cruel
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  *搦* | 搦* | *搦
(literary) to hold (in the hand) / to challenge / to provoke
to be difficult with sb / to provoke disagreement / at loggerheads / to fall out with
to provoke / to entice / to lure / to tantalize / to tease / to titillate
to stir up trouble / to provoke angry exchange
to provoke / to tease
to make a continual banging sound / (fig.) to provoke with words
to tease / to make fun of / to provoke / to stir up (trouble)
(Chinese legend) a patch of scales on a dragon's neck that grow in the opposite direction, which when touched enrages the dragon / (fig.) sensitive subject or trigger issue that provokes a strong emotional reaction when sb's views on it are challenged
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  *讨* | 讨* | *讨
to invite / to provoke / to demand or ask for / to send armed forces to suppress / to denounce or condemn / to marry (a woman) / to discuss or study
HSK 7-9
to cause trouble / to provoke a dispute
funny man (lead role in comic dialogue 對口相聲|对口相声) / to joke / to play the fool / to provoke laughter
to flirt / to titillate / to provoke
to sow discord / to provoke


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