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憎い (にくい): hateful, abominable, detestable — Japanese vocabulary

憎い is read にくい and means "hateful, abominable, detestable". JLPT N2 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

憎い

Reading
にくい · nikui
Translation
hateful, abominable, detestable
Level
JLPT N2
Pitch accent
にくいが

Example

かわいさ余って憎さ百倍。

かわいさあまってにくさひゃくばい。

The greatest hate springs from the greatest love.

Kanji in this word

  • 憎 — hate, detest

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