惹
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to provoke; to irritate; to vex; to stir up; to anger; to attract (troubles); to cause (problems)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 心 +9
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 惹
- Common rank
- #1,712
- Unicode
- U+60F9
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Formation & memory
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Words with 惹
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 日惹特区 | Special Region of Yogyakarta, region of Java, Indonesia | |
| 惹事生非 | variant of 惹是生非[re3 shi4 sheng1 fei1] | |
| 惹不起 | can't afford to offend; dare not provoke; difficult to deal with; insufferable | |
| 不好惹 | not to be trifled with; not to be pushed around; stand no nonsense | |
| 惹是生非 | to stir up trouble | |
| 惹人注意 | to attract attention | |
| 招风惹草 | (idiom) to bring trouble on oneself | |
| 惹人注目 | to attract attention; noticeable | |
| 惹火烧身 | stir up the fire and you get burnt (idiom); to get one's fingers burnt; fig. to suffer on … | |
| 招风惹雨 | see 招風惹草|招风惹草[zhao1 feng1 re3 cao3] | |
| 惹乱子 | to stir up trouble; to get into trouble | |
| 惹楼子 | variant of 惹婁子|惹娄子[re3 lou2 zi5] | |
| 惹是非 | to stir up trouble | |
| 惹人心烦 | to annoy people; to be a pain in the neck | |
| 妈惹法克 | motherfucker (loanword) | |
| 惹人 | to provoke (esp. annoyance, disgust etc); to offend; to attract (attention) | |
| 惹事 | to cause trouble | |
| 日惹 | Yogyakarta, city of Java, Indonesia, and capital of the Special Region of Yogyakarta 日惹特區|… | |
| 惹眼 | eye-catching; conspicuous | |
| 惹火 | to stir up the fire; fig. to provoke and offend people; to ruffle feathers |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 若 — compare how they read.