Kanji
嫌
N1
13 strokes
Grade 8
freq #1207
dislike, detest, hate
On'yomi (音読み)
ケン、 ゲン
Kun'yomi (訓読み)
きら.う、 きら.い、 いや
On'yomi compounds (音読み)
機嫌
きげん
humour; humor
上機嫌
じょうきげん
good humour (humor); good mood
嫌疑
けんぎ
suspicion
嫌悪
けんお
disgust; hate
不機嫌
ふきげん
pout; displeasure
自己嫌悪
じこけんお
self-hatred; self-abhorrence
嫌悪感
けんおかん
(feeling of) hatred; (strong) dislike
Kun'yomi words (訓読み)
嫌
いや
disliking; not wanting
嫌い
きらい
disliked; hated
嫌がらせ
いやがらせ
harassment; pestering
嫌気
いやき
dislike; disgust
嫌う
きらう
to hate; to dislike
好き嫌い
すききらい
likes and dislikes; tastes
大嫌い
だいきらい
hating; strongly disliking
食わず嫌い
くわずぎらい
disliking a certain food without having tried it
嫌がる
いやがる
to appear uncomfortable (with); to seem to hate
嫌らしい
いやらしい
unpleasant; disagreeable
Example sentences
次（つぎ）に起（お）こったことはいやなことだった。
What followed was unpleasant.
私（わたし）は彼（かれ）のあのいやな態度（たいど）にはもはや我慢（がまん）できない。
I can't stand that nasty attitude of his any longer.
彼（かれ）は部屋（へや）の掃除（そうじ）が嫌（きら）いだ。
He hates cleaning his room.
彼（かれ）はとりわけうそがきらいである。
He hates falsehood more than anything else.