Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 憎

憎

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Meaning

 hate, loathe, detest

Pronunciation

 ZŌ
nikumu/i/shimi

Explanation

 Left: feeling 忄, right: before/formerly 曽 build up (At rain 丷 on the field 田 as under the sun 日, that's how we worked formerly.)

Mnemonic

A feeling that I formerly had was hate.

Radicals

忄 feelings(Radical name: risshin)
丷 way out
曽 formerly, before(.From top: out of 丷, field 田, sun 日. Out of the fields rises the sun as before.)
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Vocabulary

憎い にくい hateful, abominable, poor-looking, detestable
憎しみ にくしみ hatred
憎む にくむ to hate, to detest
憎らしい にくらしい odious, hateful
愛憎 あいにく likes and dislikes

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