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Japanese symbol for “aversion”

Romaji: arerugii
allergy

In Japanese, aversion is (arerugii).

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Meanings

  1. n, n-suf allergy
  2. n, n-suf aversion (to); strong distaste (for)

Other Japanese words for “aversion”

WordReadingMeaning
けんおかん ken'okan(feeling of) hatred; (strong) dislike; disgust
けんき kenkidislike; aversion

Data: JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0); KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.