嫌

嫌 (Kangxi radical 38, 女+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 女廿難金 (VTXC), four-corner 4843₇, composition ⿰女兼)

• 𥽎, 𫅸

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 269, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 6618
• Dae Jaweon: page 536, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1073, character 8
• Unihan data for U+5ACC

Historical forms of the character 嫌
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ɡeːm) : semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 兼 (OC *keːm, *keːms).

嫌

1. to be sick of; to be tired of; to be fed up with
2. (Cantonese, transitive) to mind; to dislike; to be dissatisfied of

   後面個司機嫌我慢，就扒咗我頭。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   后面个司机嫌我慢，就扒咗我头。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   hau⁶ min⁶ go³ si¹ gei¹ jim⁴ ngo⁵ maan⁶, zau⁶ paa⁴ zo² ngo⁵ tau⁴.

   The driver behind me is disatisfied of me being so slow, so they cut in front of me.

3. (literary, or in compounds) hatred; enmity; resentment; grudge
4. (literary, or in compounds) to doubt; to suspect
5. (literary, or in compounds) suspicion (the state of being suspected)
6. (literary, or in compounds) to be similar to; to be about the same as; to approximate
7. (literary, or in compounds) to guess; to surmise; to conjecture

• (to be sick of): 膩煩／腻烦 (nìfán), 厭煩／厌烦 (yànfán)
• (hatred):

• (to doubt):

• (suspicion):

• (to be similar to):

• (to guess):

• “嫌”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Shinjitai	嫌
Kyūjitai [1]	嫌󠄁 嫌+󠄁? (Adobe-Japan1)
	嫌󠄃 嫌+󠄃? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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(Jōyō kanji)

• Go-on: げん (gen, Jōyō ^†)
• Kan-on: けん (ken, Jōyō)
• Kun: いや (iya, 嫌, Jōyō)、きらう (kirau, 嫌う, Jōyō)、うたがう (utagau, 嫌う)

From Middle Chinese 嫌 (MC hem).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

嫌

Wikisource

嫌 (eumhun 싫어할 혐 (sireohal hyeom))

1. hanja form^? of 혐 (“to hate”)
2. hanja form^? of 혐 (“to suspect”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

嫌: Hán Nôm readings: hiềm, hem, hèm

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