好き嫌い
すききらい · sukikirai · JLPT N2 · noun
disfavor
👍👎 好き (suki = like) + 嫌い (kirai = dislike) = 好き嫌い, likes and dislikes
The compound just pairs suki (like) with kirai (dislike). For taste, 好き嫌いが多い means being a picky eater, someone with many food dislikes.
好 — woman 女 + child 子
好 is an associative compound showing a woman 女 beside a child 子, depicting a mother with her baby. From this image of maternal affection it came to mean 'good, fine, pleasing.' The reading hǎo means 'good'; read hào it means 'to like.'
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.'