verb #46,347

Meanings

  1. 1 to be jealous of; to envy
  2. 2 to hate; to detest

Examples

Tā jídù biérén de chénggōng.
He envies others' success.
Tā xiànglái jí'è-rúchóu, juébù tuǒxié.
He has always hated evil with a passion and refuses to compromise.

Tips

usage
Core word: 嫉妒 (to be jealous, envious). The 'to hate' sense lives in 嫉恶如仇 ('to hate evil like an enemy'), describing someone with a fierce sense of justice.

Components

radical
woman; female
Left woman radical, the indexing component. Its link to the meaning is faint here; in this phono-semantic compound it mainly fills the classifier slot while the right side carries the sound. Same radical family as and .
phonetic
illness; fast
Right supplies the sound — jí with no tone shift. Its sense of 'sickness' loosely fits the idea of jealousy as a sickness of the heart, but its main job is phonetic.

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