嫌
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to dislike; suspicion; resentment; enmity; abbr. for 嫌犯[xian2 fan4], criminal suspect
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 13
- Radical
- 女 +10
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 嫌
- Common rank
- #1,844
- Unicode
- U+5ACC
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Formation & memory
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Words with 嫌
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 口嫌体正直 | your lips say one thing, but your body language reveals what you really think (borrowed fr… | |
| 口嫌体直 | your lips say one thing, but your body language reveals what you really think (four-charac… | |
| 不计前嫌 | (idiom) to set aside past grievances; to bear no grudge | |
| 子不嫌母丑，狗不嫌家贫 | see 兒不嫌母醜，狗不嫌家貧|儿不嫌母丑，狗不嫌家贫[er2 bu4 xian2 mu3 chou3 , gou3 bu4 xian2 jia1 pin2] | |
| 儿不嫌母丑，狗不嫌家贫 | a son won't abandon his mother for being ugly, just as a dog won't abandon its owner for b… | |
| 冰释前嫌 | (idiom) to forget previous differences; to bury the hatchet | |
| 嫌贫爱富 | to favor the rich and disdain the poor (idiom); snobbish | |
| 主嫌 | prime, key or main suspect (law) | |
| 尽释前嫌 | to forget former enmity (idiom) | |
| 嫌疑人 | a suspect | |
| 前嫌 | former hatred; bygone enmity | |
| 讨人嫌 | unpleasant; disagreeable | |
| 涉嫌人 | (criminal) suspect | |
| 嫌恶 | to loathe; to abhor; hatred; revulsion | |
| 引嫌 | to avoid arousing suspicions | |
| 嫌疑犯 | a suspect | |
| 嫌犯 | criminal suspect | |
| 人憎狗嫌 | see 人憎狗厭|人憎狗厌[ren2 zeng1 gou3 yan4] | |
| 避嫌 | to avoid arousing suspicion | |
| 嫌疑 | suspicion; to have suspicions |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 兼 — compare how they read.