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Chinese symbol for “disgust”

生厌
shēng yàn
Traditional: 生厭
to disgust; to pall; fed up; tedious

The closest CC-CEDICT match for disgust is 生厌 (shēng yàn), defined as: to disgust; to pall; fed up; tedious; cloying; boring.

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

生 shēng
life, lifetime; birth; growth
radical 100 ⽣ · 5 strokes
厌 yàn
to dislike, to detest; to reject; to satiate
radical 27 ⼚ · 6 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “disgust”

WordPinyinMeaning
恶心 (惡心)ě xīnnausea; to feel sick

Related words

Other words that share a character with 生厌.

WordPinyinMeaning
发生 (發生)fā shēngto happen; to occur; to take place; to arise (e.g. 发生问题 (fā shēng wèn tí) "a problem arises")
生活shēng huóto live; life
学生 (學生)xué shengstudent; schoolchild
生产 (生產)shēng chǎnto produce; to manufacture; to give birth to a child
产生 (產生)chǎn shēngto arise; to come into being; to come about; to give rise to; to bring into being; to bring about; to produce; to engender; to generate
先生xiān shengteacher; gentleman; sir; mister (Mr.)
讨厌 (討厭)tǎo yànto dislike; to loathe; annoying; troublesome
厌恶 (厭惡)yàn wùto loathe; to hate

See also: Japanese symbol for “disgust”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.