Chinese Character Wiki

嫌

xián

hate

Phonosemantic compound. 女 represents the meaning and 兼 represents the sound.

Components
女 meaning component

女  Meaning component

nǚ, rǔ

  

woman

兼 sound component

兼  Sound component

jiān

  

double

Evolution

嫌 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
嫌 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
嫌 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
嫌 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

嫌  

xián

hate, detest; suspect; criticize; to dislike; suspicion; resentment; enmity; abbr. for 嫌犯[xián​fàn], criminal suspect

Most common words with 嫌
Freq.
Word
Meaning

嫌疑人

a suspect

嫌犯

criminal suspect

涉嫌

to be suspected of

嫌

to dislike

嫌疑犯

a suspect

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*N-kˤem

hem

xián

doubt, doubtful


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 22.9697% of movies

1225th most common character in movies

1826th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Unicode

U+5ACC

Shuowen

“嫌，不平於心也。一曰疑也。从女，兼聲。”


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