惹

惹 (Kangxi radical 61, 心+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿大口心 (TKRP), four-corner 4433₆, composition ⿱若心)

• 㘃, 𭞱

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 393, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10866
• Dae Jaweon: page 729, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2309, character 1
• Unihan data for U+60F9

惹

1. to cause (a problem); to court
2. to offend; to provoke; to irritate; to vex

   你幹嘛老是惹我？ [MSC, trad.]
   你干嘛老是惹我？ [MSC, simp.]

   Nǐ gànmá lǎo shì rě wǒ? [Pinyin]

   Why do you always get on my nerves?

   唔好惹佢哋。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   m⁴ hou² je⁵ keoi⁵ dei⁶. [Jyutping]

   Don't provoke them.

3. to attract; to cause (a reaction)
4. (Cantonese) to attract (an animal)

   惹烏蠅／惹乌蝇 [Cantonese]  ―  je⁵ wu¹ jing^4-1 [Jyutping]  ―  to attract flies

5. (Cantonese) to infect

• (to offend):

• (to attract an animal): 招 (zhāo)

惹

1. alternative form of 偌 (“such; so”)
2. used in 惹惹

Corruption of 了 (le).

惹

1. (Mandarin, Internet slang, usually women's speech, LGBTQ slang) alternative form of 了, conveying the speaker’s emotions such as cuteness, coquettishness, playfulness, cheerfulness, or mildness
   • 2017, 貓邏, chapter 7, in 蜂舞‎^[1], volume 9, Taichung: 飛燕文創, →ISBN:

     「吵死惹！哪裡來的蠢貨？吵到本龍睡覺惹！」嫩聲嫩氣的罵聲傳出，打斷了司空龍的喊話。 [MSC, trad.]
     「吵死惹！哪里来的蠢货？吵到本龙睡觉惹！」嫩声嫩气的骂声传出，打断了司空龙的喊话。 [MSC, simp.]

     “Chǎo sǐ re! Nǎlǐ lái de chǔnhuò? Chǎo dào běn lóng shuìjiào re!” Nènshēngnènqì de màshēng chuánchū, dǎduànle Sīkōnglóng de hǎnhuà. [Pinyin]

     “It’s so noisy! Where did this idiot come from? It’s loud enough to disturb my sleep!” A soft and tender voice interrupted Sikong Long’s speech.

   • 2022 August 10, 奶粉七号, Bilibili‎^[2], archived from the original on 24 December 2024:

     蓝朋友直播，评论区发大水惹，全是鸡叫声 [MSC, simp.]
     藍朋友直播，評論區發大水惹，全是雞叫聲 [MSC, trad.]

     lánpéngyou zhíbō, pínglùnqū fā dàshuǐ re, quán shì jījiàoshēng [Pinyin]

     During a firefighter’s live broadcast, the comment section was flooded with lust and full of horny screams

   • 2024, 周侠 [Xia Zhou], quoting 北京语言大学语料库中心 [BLCU Corpus Center], “互动语言学视角下网络新兴语气词“惹”的研究 [An Interactive Linguistic Perspective on the Emerging Tone of Voice on the Internet: A Study of “re”]”, in 现代语言学 [Modern Linguistics], volume 12, number 11, →DOI, page 177:

     你们俩都太可爱惹！！！ [MSC, simp.]
     你們倆都太可愛惹！！！ [MSC, trad.]

     Nǐmen liǎ dōu tài kě'ài re!!! [Pinyin]

     You two are so cute!!!

The particle often adds an element of charm or vulnerability to the speaker’s expression.

• “惹”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[3], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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• Go-on: にゃ (nya)、にゃく (nyaku)
• Kan-on: じゃ (ja)、じゃく (jaku)
• Kun: ひく (hiku, 惹く)

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• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ja̠]
• Phonetic hangul: [야]

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惹 • (ya) (hangeul 야, revised ya, McCune–Reischauer ya, Yale ya)

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惹: Hán Nôm readings: nhạ

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