憎
Tap the pinyin to hear it
to detest
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 心 +12
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 憎
- Common rank
- #3,038
- Unicode
- U+618E
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
loathe · Heisig RSH #1816
state of mind + increase
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 憎
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 面目可憎 | repulsive countenance; disgusting appearance | |
| 爱憎分明 | to make a clear difference between what one likes and what one hates; to have well-defined… | |
| 人憎狗厌 | detestable (wordplay based on 神憎鬼厭|神憎鬼厌[shen2 zeng1 gui3 yan4]) | |
| 神憎鬼厌 | (idiom) despicable; loathsome | |
| 人憎狗嫌 | see 人憎狗厭|人憎狗厌[ren2 zeng1 gou3 yan4] | |
| 可憎 | disgusting | |
| 爱憎 | love and hate | |
| 憎恶 | to hate evil | |
| 憎恶 | to loathe; to detest; to abhor | |
| 憎恨 | to detest; hatred | |
| 憎厌 | to loathe |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 曾 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 曾 sound part | already, formerly, once; the past | |
| 增 | to increase; to expand; to augment; to add | |
| 僧 | Buddhist priest, monk | |
| 赠 | to bestow, to confer, to present a gift | |
| 蹭 | to shuffle; to procrastinate, to freeload, to dilly-dally | |
| 噌 | to scold, to shout at | |
| 缯 | silk; to tie, to bind; surname | |
| 罾 | a large square net for catching fish | |
| 甑 | a boiler for steaming rice |