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Kanji Detail for 倦 - "to tire of"
倦
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Meaning
倦 means "to tire of." Also associated with to be exhausted, to be troubled.
To tire of - To grow weary; to become bored.
To be exhausted - To be fatigued; to be worn out.
To be troubled - To struggle without progress; to become frustrated.
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- Verified meaning: to tire of
- Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names
- Also carries these associations: to be exhausted, to be troubled
A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.
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Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
lose interest in; tire of
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
be tired of, weary
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
tired; weary; fatigued
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
tired, weary
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
To slack off. (Analects) "Teaching others without tiring." | Fatigued is called 倦.
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Strokes
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Sentences including 倦
It seems that they're bored of married life.
Symmetry is boring.
オルダス・ハックスリーが人間のもっとも危険な条件だと考えたのは倦怠であった。
It was boredom that Aldous Huxley considered one of the most dangerous human conditions.
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- 人 person, people, counter
- 仁 benevolence, humanity, kernel
- 今 now, current, immediately
- 介 to mediate
- 仏 buddha, buddhism, france
- 仔 young, detailed
- 仕 to serve, official
- 他 other, else, third person pronoun
- 付 attach
- 仙 hermit, immortal, wizard
- 代 generation, era, substitute
- 令 order, law, good
- 以 by means of
- 仮 temporary, provisional
- 仰 to look up, to revere
- 仲 relationship, middle, mediator
- 件 matter, item, affair
- 任 duty, to entrust, to appoint
- 企 plan
- 伊 Italy, that one
- 伍 companion, five
- 伎 skill, art
- 伏 prostrate, to hide
- 伐 to attack, to cut, to conquer
- 休 to rest
- 会 to meet, to gather