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Definition(s) for: 拈花惹草

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
拈花惹草 niān huā rě cǎo - lit. to pick the flowers and trample the grass (idiom)
- fig. to womanize
- to frequent brothels
- to sow one's wild oats

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
- - - 57,394 30,334

Individual Character Breakdown:

Simp Pinyin Eng
niān- to nip
- to grasp with the fingers
- to fiddle with
- Taiwan pr. [nian2]
huā- surname Hua
huā- flower
- blossom
- CL:朵[duo3],支[zhi1],束[shu4],把[ba3],盆[pen2],簇[cu4]
- fancy pattern
- florid
- to spend (money, time)
- (coll.) lecherous
- lustful
huā- old variant of 花[hua1]
huā- variant of 花[hua1]
- flower
- blossom
- also pr. [wei3]
- to provoke
- to irritate
- to vex
- to stir up
- to anger
- to attract (troubles)
- to cause (problems)
cǎo- grass
- straw
- manuscript
- draft (of a document)
- careless
- rough
- CL:棵[ke1],撮[zuo3],株[zhu1],根[gen1]
cào- variant of 肏[cao4]
cǎo- variant of 草[cao3]

Other Words Containing 拈花惹草

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Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo