哪壺不開提哪壺

lit. mention the pot that doesn't boil (idiom); to touch a sore spot / to talk about sb's weak point

how / which

(emphatic sentence-final particle, used instead of 啊[a5] after a word ending in "n")

used in 哪吒[Ne2 zha1] / Taiwan pr. [nuo2]

which? (interrogative, followed by classifier or numeral-classifier)

pot / classifier for bottled liquid

no; not so / (bound form) not; un-

to open / to start / to turn on / to boil / to write out (a prescription, check, invoice etc) / to operate (a vehicle) / carat (gold) / abbr. for Kelvin, 開爾文|开尔文[Kai1 er3 wen2] / abbr. for 開本|开本[kai1 ben3], book format

used in 提防[di1 fang5] and 提溜[di1 liu5]

to carry (hanging down from the hand) / to lift / to put forward / to mention / to raise (an issue) / upwards character stroke / lifting brush stroke (in painting) / scoop for measuring liquid