惹火烧身 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 惹火燒身 rěhuǒshāoshēn ㄖㄜˇ ㄏㄨㄛˇ ㄕㄠ ㄕㄣ 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 Character by character 惹(rě)provoke 火(huǒ)surname Huo 烧(shāo)burn 身(shēn)body A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0