仇
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hatred; animosity; enmity; foe; enemy; to feel animosity toward (the wealthy, foreigners etc)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 人 +2
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 仇
- Common rank
- #1,448
- Unicode
- U+4EC7
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
animosity · Heisig RSH #2055
人 person + baseball
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 仇
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 仇人相见，分外眼红 | when the enemies come face to face, their eyes blaze with hatred (idiom) | |
| 仇外心理 | xenophobia | |
| 有仇不报非君子 | a real man, if he takes a hit, will seek to even the score (idiom) | |
| 反目成仇 | (idiom) to fall out with sb; to become enemies | |
| 君子报仇，十年不晚 | lit. for a nobleman to take revenge, ten years is not too long (idiom); fig. revenge is a … | |
| 切骨之仇 | bitter hatred; hatred that cuts to the bone | |
| 苦大仇深 | (idiom) great bitterness and deep hatred; deeply ingrained long-standing resentment | |
| 公报私仇 | to use public office to avenge private wrongs | |
| 血亲复仇 | blood vengeance | |
| 有仇不报非君子，有冤不伸枉为人 | one who doesn't avenge an injustice is not a gentleman, one who doesn't redress a wrong is… | |
| 官报私仇 | to take advantage of official post for personal revenge (idiom) | |
| 一箭之仇 | a wrong suffered (idiom); old grievance; previous defeat | |
| 仇人 | foe; one's personal enemy | |
| 仇家 | enemy; foe | |
| 三仇 | animosity or resentment towards three groups (the bureaucrats, the wealthy, and the police… | |
| 仇外 | to feel animosity toward foreigners or outsiders; xenophobia | |
| 恩将仇报 | to bite the hand that feeds one (idiom) | |
| 深仇大恨 | (idiom) bitter hatred | |
| 报仇 | to take revenge; to avenge | |
| 仇恨罪行 | hate crime |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 九 — compare how they read.