撩
liāoliáo

lift up

撩 liāo frequency
lift up verb
to lift up something hanging down, such as a curtain, skirt hem, or sleeve

她撩起裙摆，跨过了水洼。

tā liāo qǐ qún​bǎi, kuà​guò le shuǐ​wā.

She lifted her skirt and stepped over the puddle.

sprinkle verb
to sprinkle or splash water using cupped hands

他往脸上撩了一些冷水，让自己清醒一点。

tā wǎng liǎn shàng liāo le yī​xiē lěng​shuǐ, ràng zì​jǐ qīng​xǐng yī​diǎn.

He splashed some cold water on his face to wake himself up.

撩 liáo
stir up verb
to arouse or excite specific emotions, interest, or desires

这番话撩起了他内心深处的思乡之情。

zhè fān huà liáo qǐ le tā nèi​xīn shēn​chù de sī​xiāng zhī qíng.

Those words stirred up a deep sense of homesickness in his heart.

tease verb
to provoke or annoy someone, often playfully, to elicit a reaction

他总爱去撩那个脾气暴躁的人。

tā zǒng ài qù liáo nà gè pí​qi bào​zào de rén.

He always likes to provoke that hot-tempered person.

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,514th most common 5.30 per million
Movie subtitles
3,657th most common 1.13 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.34 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
2.59 per million

Details
Strokes
15
Unicode
U+64A9

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)