# 憎 detest

(leftheart) + 曽 (gain) Same-ON
★★☆☆☆
14 strokes
SOLO

## Onyomi

## Mnemonic

| The more I detest (insert name of personal enemy), the more my heartbeat gains speed.

## Kunyomi

にく*らしい | hateful, just odious, terribly immoral. ★★☆☆☆
にく＊む | to hate or detest! Not like "I hate sports" or "I hate Insane Clown Posse," but like "I detest Hitler and female genital mutilation." ★★☆☆☆

## Lookalikes

| Meaning | Hint | Radical
--- | --- | --- | ---
贈 | give | MONEY | 貝
増 | increase | EARTH | 土
憎 | detest | HEART | 心
慣 | adapt | not HORNY |
僧 | buddhist monk | PERSON | 人

You give MONEY away.

The EARTH'S temperature increases.

You detest me with all your HEART.

I adapt to it because I'm NOT HORNY for you anyway.

A monk is a PERSON.

| Meaning | Hint | Radical
--- | --- | --- | ---
憎 | detest | HORNY |
惜 | close but no cigar | HELLBUNNY |

When you get HORNY, you detest the BUNNIES that tell you close but no cigar! You got dissed, player!

## Synonyms

detest 侮る 嫌がる 憎しみ 憎らしい 卑しめる いやしむべき 忌み嫌う 忌まわしい 卑しむ