厌
(bound form) to loathe; to be fed up with; (literary) to satiate; to satisfy
6 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,505 U+538C
How 厌 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
厂 (semantic, “cliff”) + 犬 (phonetic, quǎn)
How to remember it
detest · Heisig RSH #241
chihuahua + 厂 factory
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 犬
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 犬 (quǎn) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 犬 sound component | quǎn | dog |
| 厣 | yǎn | shell |
| 畎 | quǎn | a drain between fields, irrigation; to flow |
Words containing 厌
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 精神性厌食症 | jīng shén xìng yàn shí zhèng | anorexia nervosa |
| 学而不厌 | xué ér bù yàn | study tirelessly (idiom, from Analects) |
| 女性厌恶 | nǚ xìng yàn wù | misogyny |
| 百听不厌 | bǎi tīng bù yàn | worth hearing a hundred times |
| 百读不厌 | bǎi dú bù yàn | to be worth reading a hundred times (idiom) |
| 男性厌恶 | nán xìng yàn wù | misandry |
| 厌女症 | yàn nǚ zhèng | misogyny (rhetorical term framing misogyny as a social or ideological pathology) |
| 喜新厌旧 | xǐ xīn yàn jiù | lit. to like the new, and hate the old (idiom); fig. enamored with new people (e.g. new gi… |
| 厌食症 | yàn shí zhèng | anorexia |
| 不厌 | bù yàn | not to tire of; not to object to |
| 厌学 | yàn xué | to be weary of studying; to have developed an aversion to studying |
| 生厌 | shēng yàn | to disgust; to pall; fed up; tedious; cloying; boring; irritating |
| 会厌 | huì yàn | epiglottis |
| 厌气 | yàn qì | fed up with; loathsome |
| 会厌炎 | huì yàn yán | epiglottitis |
| 贪得无厌 | tān dé wú yàn | avaricious and insatiable (idiom); greedy and never satisfied |
| 厌战 | yàn zhàn | to be weary of war; (fig.) to lose one's desire to continue to fight (sports match, legal … |
| 厌世 | yàn shì | world-weary; pessimistic |
| 厌女 | yàn nǚ | misogyny; ideological or cultural hostility toward women |
| 厌食 | yàn shí | anorexia |