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憎 kanji
hate, detest
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N2 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 14
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
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Kun readings
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Variant forms
憎Words with 憎
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —憎悪Popularhatred; abhorrence; loathing; detestation
- —愛憎Popularlove and hate
- —愛憎劇love-hate relationships drama (movie, etc.)
- —愛憎併存ambivalence
- —憎悪犯罪hate crime
- —怨憎会苦the pain of meeting people one dislikes
- —嫌中憎韓Dislike China, Hate Korea; publishing genre of anti-Chinese and Korean books and magazines
- —憎悪表現hate speech
- —愛憎関係love-hate relationship
- —近親憎悪hostility towards people close to oneself (family, associates, etc.); bearing hatred for one's peers
- —愛憎相半ばするto have mixed feelings of love and hatred; to love and hate equally