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Kanji Detail for 厭 - "satiated, dislike, nightmare, press"

  • Meaning

    厭 means "satiated, dislike, nightmare, press."

    1. Satiated - Tired of; fed up with from excess or long duration.

    2. Dislike - To hate; to be weary of.

    3. Nightmare - Troubled by bad dreams.

    4. Press - To push down; to suppress.

  • Four-character idioms with

    • 厭離穢土 えんりえど Listen abhorrence of (living in) this impure world
    • 畏怖嫌厭 いふけんえん Listen feelings of dread and aversion
  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    get tired of; satiate; bore; dislike; disagreeable; unwelcome

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    dislike, detest, reject; satiate

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    (bound form) to loathe; to be fed up with; (literary) to satiate; to satisfy

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to dislike, to detest; to reject; to satiate

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Satisfied. Such as 貪得無厭, meaning desires are insatiable. | Disliking. Today, hateful is also called 可厭. All things repeatedly experienced that feel tiresome are called 厭. Such as 厭見, 厭聞. Also meaning excessively satisfied. Colloquially, restless children are called 厭, meaning they make people feel annoyed. | To suppress. Interchangeable with 壓 of 鎮壓.
  • Onyomi

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  • Kunyomi

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Sentences including

  • The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it.

  • He was annoyed at having to show up before the public.

  • For some reason, her husband seemed to dislike that she spoke of me. In truth, she talked too much about me.

  • For some reason, her husband seemed to dislike that she spoke of me. In truth, she talked too much about me.

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