嫌
xián · HSK 6
dislike
😒 女 woman + 兼 double — she minds doing double duty
兼 means simultaneously and sounds close to xián. The woman radical plus doubling up gives the sense of resenting an extra burden.
嫌 — woman radical 女 + 兼 (combine, phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound: 女 (woman) suggests the meaning, while 兼 supplies the sound. The original sense related to suspicion or dislike, possibly tied to social judgments. Over time it broadened to mean 'to dislike,' 'to suspect,' or 'to find objectionable.'