Hanja Analyzer
厭

厭 — yeom, yeop

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
싫어할 염, 제사할 엽
Romanization
yeom, yeop
English
dislike, detest, reject; satiate
Mandarin
yàn
Japanese on'yomi
エン, オン, ヨウ, オウ, ユウ, アン
Japanese kun'yomi
いや あ.きる いと.う おさ.える
Japanese usage
Not on either list
Strokes
14
Radical
厂 (27, 12 residual)
Unicode
U+53AD

How 厭 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 厭 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 厂, 猒.

Korean example words with 厭

  • 염전厭戰 Korean gloss: 전쟁을 싫어함
  • 권염倦厭 Korean gloss: 권태로워 싫증이 남
  • 염증厭症 Korean gloss: 싫은 생각이나 느낌. 또는 그런 반응
  • 염세厭世 Korean gloss: 세상을 괴롭고 귀찮은 것으로 여겨 비관함
  • 염오厭惡 Korean gloss: 마음으로부터 싫어하여 미워함. 또는 그런 느낌
  • 염피하다厭避 Korean gloss: 싫어서 피하다
  • 염오감厭惡感 Korean gloss: 마음으로부터 싫어하고 미워하는 감정
  • 염세가厭世家 Korean gloss: 세상을 괴롭고 귀찮게 여기는 비관적인 사람
  • 염오증厭惡症 Korean gloss: 마음으로부터 싫어하여 미워하는 생각이나 증세
  • 염한론厭韓論 Korean gloss: 한국을 싫어하는 마음으로 가득찬 논의나 주장
  • 염간자厭諫者 Korean gloss: 허물이 있는 데도 신하들이 간하는 말을 듣기 싫어하는 군주
  • 염세증厭世症 Korean gloss: 세상이나 인생을 추악하고 괴로운 것으로 여겨 비관하는 증세

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 厭

  • 厭ういとう to shun; to balk at (doing); to grudge (doing)
  • 厭悪えんお dislike; detestation
  • 厭人えんじん misanthropy
  • 厭世えんせい weariness with life; world-weariness; pessimism
  • 厭戦えんせん war weariness
  • 会厭ええん epiglottis
  • 倦厭けんえん weariness
  • 厭離おんり departing from this world in disdain
  • 厭棄えんき abandonment; rejection
  • 厭魅えんみ killing someone with a magical curse; cursing someone to death
  • 厭忌えんき hatred; dislike; abhorrence
  • 三厭さんえん red meat, bird and fish flesh; three disagreeable things

Characters sharing the phonetic 厭

Most Han characters pair a meaning part with a sound part. Characters sharing a sound part are usually read alike. Most of this group are read “염” in Korean.

Other hanja read “염”

Other hanja with radical 厂

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