憎
憎 — jeung
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 미울 증
- Romanization
- jeung
- English
- hate, detest, abhor; hatred
- Mandarin
- zēng
- Japanese on'yomi
- ゾウ, ソウ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- にく.む にく.い にく.らしい にく.しみ
- Japanese usage
- Jōyō kanji
- School grade
- Secondary (Jōyō)
- Newspaper frequency
- #1,808 of 2,500
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 心 (61, 12 residual)
- Phonetic component
- 曾(증)
- Unicode
- U+618E
Parts that make up 憎
How 憎 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 憎 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 心, 曾.
Korean example words with 憎
- 증혐憎嫌 Korean gloss: 미워하고 싫어함
- 애증愛憎 Korean gloss: 사랑과 미움을 아울러 이르는 말
- 증애憎愛 Korean gloss: 미움과 사랑을 아울러 이르는 말
- 가증하다可憎 Korean gloss: 괘씸하고 얄밉다
- 증기하다憎忌 Korean gloss: 미워하고 꺼리다
- 증원하다憎怨 Korean gloss: 미워하고 원망하다
- 증오스럽다憎惡 Korean gloss: 보기에 증오할 만하다
- 증오감憎惡感 Korean gloss: 사무치게 미워하는 감정
- 증오심憎惡心 Korean gloss: 사무치게 미워하는 마음
- 질증疾憎 Korean gloss: 몹시 미워함.
- 기증忌憎 Korean gloss: 싫어하고 미워함.
- 원증怨憎 Korean gloss: 원망하고 증오함.
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 憎
- 憎悪ぞうお hatred; abhorrence; loathing
- 憎しみにくしみ hatred
- 愛憎あいぞう love and hate
- 憎いにくい hateful; detestable; abominable
- 憎むにくむ to hate; to detest
- 心憎いこころにくい refined; admirable; superb
- 生憎あいにく unfortunately; sorry, but ...
- 憎らしいにくらしい odious; hateful; detestable
- 憎さにくさ hatefulness; hatred
- 憎げにくげ hateful; spiteful
- 憎きにっくき accursed; damned; blasted
- 面憎いつらにくい provoking; offensive
Characters sharing the phonetic 曾
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 “증” in Korean.
Other hanja read “증”
Other hanja with radical 心
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences