挑衅
tiǎo​xìn HSK7

to provoke

挑衅 挑釁 tiǎo​xìn
to provoke verbnoun
to deliberately stir up conflict or a dispute

我没有挑衅他。

wǒ méi​yǒu tiǎo​xìn tā.

I did not provoke him.

“你挑衅了他们？”

“ nǐ tiǎo​xìn le tā​men?”

“Did you provoke them?”

provocation
a deliberate action or statement that is intended to make someone annoyed or angry, or to start a conflict

Frequency
Movie subtitles
5.22 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
6.73 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7

Cross-References

Synonym

Sources
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)