Japanese Word Entry

憎らしい

Simplified Japanese form: 憎らしい

Kana:にくらしい
Romaji:nikurashii
Definitions:
  1. odious, hateful, detestable, horrible

  2. (speaking ironically) darling


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Chinese characters used in this word

憎 hate, detest, abhor, hatred
Readings
Mandarin: ㄗㄥ (zēng)
Cantonese: zang1
Japanese: ゾウ (zou) / にく.む (nikumu)、 にく.い (nikui)、 にく.らしい (nikurashii)、 にく.しみ (nikushimi)
Korean: 증 (jeung)
Vietnamese: tăng
Variants
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