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Mythic Mandarin

讨厌 (tǎo yàn): meaning and stroke order

讨厌 (tǎo yàn) means to dislike, to loathe, disagreeable, troublesome, annoying.

讨厌

Simplified
讨厌
Traditional
討厭
Pinyin
tǎo yàn

Stroke order of 讨厌

讨

  • tǎo to invite; to provoke
  • 5 strokes
  • Traditional form: 討

Stroke by stroke

厌

  • yàn (bound form) to loathe; to be fed up with; (literary) to satiate; to satisfy
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 厭

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 讨厌

  1. tǎo yàn Traditional 討厭
    • to dislike
    • to loathe
    • disagreeable
    • troublesome
    • annoying

Radicals of the characters

讨
Radical 讠 (Kangxi radical 149) in its simplified form · 5 strokes · 讠 on the left, 寸 on the right
厌
Radical 厂 (Kangxi radical 27) · 6 strokes · built from 厂 and 犬

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).