(yàn) - to be fed up with (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
yànTraditional: 厌
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Translation
to be fed up with (bound morpheme)
Word origin
An ideographic character under the cliff radical 厂; the inner 犬 (dog) over 月 (meat) originally depicted satiation, giving the sense of being satiated and so fed up with something.
- Origin
- ideographic
- Root
- 厂 (cliff) + 犬 (dog) + 月 (meat)
Stroke order
厌
Examples
。
I hate waiting.
。
He is really annoying.
乱。
Mum hates a messy room.
倦。
I have grown tired of this job.
。
He never tires of answering questions.
厌 (yàn) means to be fed up with. It is a bound morpheme and chiefly appears in 讨厌 (tǎo yàn), to dislike.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 厌.
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