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  2. 嫌い

きらい

嫌い

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dislike

kirai

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JLPT
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Meanings

  1. 1
    disliked; hated; disagreeableな-adjectivenoun
  2. 2
    tendency; smack (of); touch (of)noun
  3. 3
    distinction; discriminationnoun

JMdict 1257240

In a sentence

蚊(か)がmosquito嫌(きら)いhate

I hate mosquitoes

How it works

が (subject) points out 蚊(か) (mosquito) as the subject — but with feeling words like 嫌い(きらい) (hate), Japanese marks the thing you dislike with が (subject), not an object particle. So literally it’s closer to “mosquitoes are hateful (to me)”. No verb is needed; 嫌い(きらい) (hate) alone carries it.

Written with

  • 嫌dislike13 strokes

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