Kilo Lingo

(hèn) - to hate in Mandarin

hèn

Traditional: 恨

Line drawing of 恨
Coloured illustration of 恨
#974 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

to hate

Word origin

恨 (hèn, 'to hate') is a phono-semantic compound: 忄(the heart radical) marks it as an emotion, with 艮 (gěn) as the phonetic component.

Origin
phono-semantic compound
Root
忄(heart radical) + 艮 (gěn, phonetic)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 恨

Examples

I hate this kind of weather.

He hates the person who cheated him.

chóu

Do not harbour hatred.

He hates that swindler.

lǎn

I hate that I am too lazy.

恨 (hèn) means to hate.

Used in

Add to review queue

Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.

Go to my review queue

This word is part of lesson 20.