惡

惡 (radical 61, 心+8, 12 strokes, cangjie input 一一心 (MMP), four-corner 1033₁, composition ⿱亞心)

• 𛀅

• KangXi: page 391, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10824
• Dae Jaweon: page 724, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2307, character 12
• Unihan data for U+60E1

Historical forms of the character 惡
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qaː, *qaːɡs, *qaːɡ) : phonetic 亞 (OC *qraːɡs) + semantic 心 (“heart”).

惡

1. evil; wicked; bad; foul; ill

   Antonyms: 善 (shàn)

   惡毒 / 恶毒  ―  èdú  ―  malicious

   • 他經常做惡，這回終於犯事了。 [MSC, trad.]
     他经常做恶，这回终于犯事了。 [MSC, simp.]

     Tā jīngcháng zuòè, zhè huí zhōngyú fànshì le. [Pinyin]

     He often does bad things and has finally been caught.

2. (Cantonese) fierce; hostile

   佢心情唔好就好惡㗎喇。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   佢心情唔好就好恶㗎喇。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   Keoi⁵ sam¹ cing⁴ m⁴ hou² zau⁶ hou² ok³ gaa³ laa³. [Jyutping]

   When he's upset, he gets really hostile.

3. (Cantonese, Min Nan) difficult
4. (Taiwanese Hokkien) slow

僫 is more common for the Hokkien word when pronounced oh.

惡

1. to hate; to loathe; to dislike

   厭惡 / 厌恶  ―  yànwù  ―  to loathe

   • 死亦我所惡，所惡有甚於死者，故患有所不辟也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     死亦我所恶，所恶有甚于死者，故患有所不辟也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Mencius, circa 4^th century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Sǐ yì wǒ suǒ wù, suǒ wù yǒu shèn yú sǐ zhě, gù huàn yǒu suǒ bù bì yě. [Pinyin]

     I dislike death indeed, but there is that which I dislike more than death, and therefore there are occasions when I will not avoid danger.

惡

1. (literary) An interrogative pronoun: how
2. (literary) Interjection used to express surprise: oh; ah

• 烏／乌 (wū)

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 悪)

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• Go-on: あく (aku); う (u)
• Kan-on: あく (aku); お (o)
• Kun: わるい (warui, 惡い)

惡 • (ak, o) (hangeul 악, 오, revised ak, o, McCune–Reischauer ak, o, Yale ak, o)

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• 악감 [惡感]
• 악감정 [惡感情]
• 악과 [惡果]
• 악기 [惡氣]
• 악설 [惡說, 惡舌]

惡 (ác, ố)

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