Entry
  1. Godan verb with 'u' ending, Godan verb with 'u' ending (special class), Transitive verb

    to shun; to balk at (doing); to grudge (doing); to dislike (an activity, environment, etc.); to be weary of

    usu. in the negativesee 厭わない

    あの青年は大金を得るため一生懸命働くのをいとわなかった。
    The young man was extremely money hungry.
  2. to take (good) care of (esp. one's health)

    Usually written using kana alone

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Characters in this word

1
Strokes: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0

get tired of, satiate, bore, dislike, disagreeable, unwelcome

Kun
いやあ.きるいと.うおさ.える
On
エンオンアンオウユウヨウ
Strokes
14
Radical
cliff

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Dictionary and index codes (14)
CodeReference
3-2-12SKIP code
2p12.1The Kanji Dictionary
7123.4Four corner code
53adUnicode hex code
1-17-62JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
834Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
662New Nelson (John Haig)
3017New Japanese-English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3745Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2149Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2272Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3025Morohashi
yan4, yan1Pinyin reading
yeom, am, yeobKorean reading