嫌

嫌 — dislike, detest, hate

JLPT: JLPT N1
Strokes: 13
Taught in: Secondary school
Frequency: #1207 most common

Readings

On'yomi came with the character from Chinese; kun'yomi is the native Japanese word it was borrowed for. A dot marks where okurigana takes over, a hyphen marks a prefix or suffix position.

On'yomi: けん ken

げん gen
Kun'yomi: きら.う kira.u

きら.い kira.i

いや iya

Example words for this kanji are being written.

Words that use 嫌

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