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(yàn) - to be fed up with (bound morpheme) in Mandarin

yàn

Traditional: 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

Stroke order for 厌

Examples

I hate waiting.

He is really annoying.

luàn

Mum hates a messy room.

juàn

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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This word is part of lesson 105.