嫌い

Japanese

Kanji in this term
嫌
きら
Grade: S
kun’yomi

Etymology

/kiraɸi/ → /kirawi/ → /kirai/

The 連用形 (ren’yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 嫌う (kirau, “to detest, dislike, hate”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) きらい [kìráí] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA(key): [kʲiɾa̠i]

Adjective

嫌(きら)い • (kirai) ←きらひ (kirafi)?-na (adnominal 嫌(きら)いな (kirai na), adverbial 嫌(きら)いに (kirai ni))

  1. hateful, detestable, disagreeable
    Antonym: 好き (suki)
    大都市(だいとし)は嫌(きら)いです。 ― daitoshi wa kirai desu. ― I hate big cities.
    僕(ぼく)はコーヒーが嫌(きら)いだ。 ― boku wa kōhī ga kirai da. ― I don't like coffee.
  2. discriminating, distinctive

Usage notes

The one who dislikes is marked using は (wa) as the topic marker, or just omitted. What is disliked is marked using は (wa) as the contrastive marker, or using が (ga) as the subject marker.

Inflection

Derived terms

Proverbs

  • 袖(そで)から手(て)を出(だ)すも嫌(きら)い (sode kara te o dasu mo kirai)
  • 出(だ)すことは舌(した)を出(だ)すも嫌(きら)い (dasu koto wa shita o dasu mo kirai)

Noun

嫌(きら)い • (kirai) 

  1. discrimination, distinction
  2. (literary) a suspicion, a tendency, to smack of
    ジムくんは行(い)き過(す)ぎの嫌(きら)いがある。
    Jimu-kun wa ikisugi no kirai ga aru.
    Jim has a tendency of going too far.
  3. (poetry) in 俳諧 (haikai) and 連歌 (renga), arrangement of verses that tend to be avoided or otherwise disliked

Suffix

嫌(ぎら)い • (-girai) ←ぎらひ (girafi)?

  1. hating, hater

References

  1. “嫌”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  1. 2002, Yasuo Kitahara, 明鏡国語辞典 (Meikyō Kokugo Jiten), First Edition (in Japanese), Tokyo: Taishūkan Shoten, →ISBN
  2. 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
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