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嫌

Dislike
Stroke count: 13

Readings

On readingケン、ゲン
Kun readingきら.い、いや

Verbs with «嫌»

嫌う嫌がる

Meanings

  1. dislikeRtK
  2. detest
  3. hate
    彼は部屋の掃除が嫌いだ。He hates cleaning his room.tatoeba
    女性を極端に嫌う。The god hated women.wiki
  1. disliking
  2. not wanting
  3. unwilling (to do)
  4. reluctant

Popular Usage

嫌い機嫌嫌う嫌がる好き嫌い

Radicals and components

Radical女woman
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Mnemonic (RtK)

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woman (女) · concurrently · animal horns · rake

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1724

Compound words

彼の機嫌を取るのは難しい。きげん
He is hard to please.tatoeba
露骨に嫌な顔をして、彼を睨みつけた。いや
I glared at him with a blatant look of disapproval on my face.tatoeba
彼は飛行機での旅行が大嫌いだ。
He hates air travel.tatoeba
誰だって人前でからかわれるのは嫌だろ。
Nobody likes to be made fun of in public.tatoeba
彼は頭がよいがやはり嫌いだ。
He's intelligent, but I still don't like him.tatoeba
穢れを払う様に嫌う。
Hate as if to expel impurities.wiki
助監督はやむなく嫌がる大道具のスタッフに頭を下げて徹夜で作り直させた。
The assistant director bowed his head to reluctant staff in charge of props and had them rebuild the set all night.wiki

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

髪の毛べたべたは嫌だ
かみのけべたべたはいやだI hate greasy hair.
ホームなのに嫌がらせみたいな応援
ほーむなのにいやがらせみたいなおうえんSupport that feels like harassment even though it's our home ground.
嫌な事件ばかりで新聞を読むのがおっくうだ
いやなじけんばかりでしんぶんをよむのがおっくうだOnly bad incidents in the news, so reading the newspaper is a chore.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

13 strokes

Dislike. 女 (woman) + 兼 (both at once) — wanting two at once is distasteful.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 嫌

Draw with a guide, then from memory — checked at every step