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讨厌

tǎo yàn

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 討厭

讨厌 (tǎo yàn) means "to dislike". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 讨厌 means

1. to dislike
2. to loathe
3. disagreeable
4. troublesome
5. annoying

The characters in 讨厌

• 讨tǎoto invite; to provoke; to demand or ask for
• 厌yàn(bound form) to loathe; to be fed up with; (literary) to satiate; to satisfy

Example sentences

• 讨厌。
  Charming.
• 猫讨厌水
  Māo tǎoyàn shuǐ
  Cats hate water.
• 我讨厌！
  I hate it!
• 猫讨厌水。
  Cats don't like water.
• 我讨厌你。
  I hate you.
• 我讨厌雪。
  I hate snow!

Words starting with 讨厌

• 讨厌鬼tǎo yàn guǐdisgusting person; slob

Where 讨厌 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Negative emotions & reactions (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tǎo yàn correctly.
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