作孽

to sin

worker / workshop / (slang) troublesome / high-maintenance (person)

to do; to engage in / to write; to compose / to pretend; to feign / to regard as; to consider to be / to be; to act the part of / to feel (itchy, nauseous etc) / writings; works

variant of 孽[nie4]

son born of a concubine / disaster / sin / evil

disaster one brings on oneself / to be reponsible for something bad that happens to oneself / to have only oneself to blame