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
trad. 惹火燒身
Also written 惹火燒身【rě huǒ shāo shēn】
Characters in this word
4惹
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to provoke, to irritate, to vex, to stir up, to anger, to attract (troubles), to cause (problems)
- Pinyin
- rě
- Strokes
- 12
- Frequency
- 1766 of 2500
火
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surname Huo
- Pinyin
- Huǒ
- Strokes
- 4
- Frequency
- 2136 of 2500
烧
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to burn; to set on fire, to heat (over a fire); to boil (water, tea etc), to braise, to cook; to prepare food, to run a fever, fever, (coll.) to become full of oneself; to get carried away
- Pinyin
- shāo
- Traditional
- 燒
- Strokes
- 10
- Frequency
- 2173 of 2500
身
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body, life, oneself, personally, one's morality and conduct, the main part of a structure or body, pregnant, classifier for sets of clothes: suit, twinset, Kangxi radical 158
- Pinyin
- shēn
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 3095 of 2500