Hanja Analyzer
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

  • 忄 마음 심variant of 心 심장을 본뜬 것느낌과 생각, 마음의 움직임
  • 曽 일찍 증 김이 오르는 시루曾 과 같은 글자. ‘증·층’ 계열의 소리

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

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