憎

Translingual

shinjitai	憎
simplified	憎
traditional	憎

Alternative forms

Note difference between Chinese form, which uses 曾, and Japanese shinjitai which uses 曽.

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 忄 (“heart”) + phonetic 曾 – hatred comes from the heart, to hate with one’s heart.

Japanese shinjitai form rather 忄 + 曽.

Han character

憎 (radical 61 心+12, 15 strokes, cangjie input 心金田日 (PCWA), four-corner 9806₆)

1. hate, detest, abhor
2. hatred

Related characters

• 增 (増) 僧

References

• KangXi: page 402, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11188
• Dae Jaweon: page 742, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2356, character 8
• Unihan data for U+618E

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Cantonese

Hanzi

憎 (Yale jang1)

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Japanese

Kanji

憎 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: ぞう (zō)
• Kun: にくむ (nikumu), にくしみ (nikushimi), にくい (nikui), にくらしい (nikurashii)

Compounds

• 生憎 (あいにく, ainiku, “unfortunately”)
• 合憎 (あいにく, ainiku, “unfortunately”)

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Korean

Hanja

憎 (hangeul 증, revised jeung, McCune-Reischauer chŭng, Yale cung)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

憎 (pinyin zēng (zeng1), Wade-Giles tseng¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

憎 (tăng)