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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 stir up the fire / fig. to provoke and offend people / to ruffle feathers
to provoke anger
to stir up trouble / to invite disaster
to offend
to cause trouble
can't afford to offend / dare not provoke / difficult to deal with / insufferable
to court (trouble); to attract (attention) / to provoke (sb)
to stir up trouble
to fondle the flowers and trample the grass (idiom) / to womanize / to frequent brothels / to sow one's wild oats
to provoke / to tease
lit. to pick the flowers and trample the grass (idiom) / fig. to womanize / to frequent brothels / to sow one's wild oats
to invite disaster
stir up the fire and you get burnt (idiom); to get one's fingers burnt / fig. to suffer on account of one's own meddling
(idiom) to bring trouble on oneself
variant of 惹是生非
accommodating / easy to push around
provoke, incite / stir up / arouse (attention)
Nyonya / see 峇峇娘惹
Peranakan Chinese (Baba-Nyonya), an ethnic group of Chinese residing in the Malay peninsula (also known as Straits Chinese)
not to be trifled with / not to be pushed around / stand no nonsense
to stir up trouble
(coll.) to irritate / to annoy / to piss sb off
Special Region of Yogyakarta, region of Java, Indonesia
to attract attention
Yogyakarta, city of Java, Indonesia, and capital of the Special Region of Yogyakarta 日惹特區|日惹特区
irritable
to provoke (esp. annoyance, disgust etc) / to offend / to attract (attention)
motherfucker (loanword)
to stir up trouble / to get into trouble
annoying / disgusting
to annoy people / to be a pain in the neck
to attract attention / noticeable
to stir up trouble / to bring trouble upon oneself
to create difficulties; to be troublesome; to invite trouble


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