飽きる

あきる · akiru · JLPT N3 · verb-ichidan

to get tired of

🍚 飽 = 食 eat + 包 wrap: you've eaten your fill, so you're fed up

飽 first meant full or satisfied after eating. 飽きる carries that idea on: you've had so much of something that you're fed up with it. English uses the same food idea in fed up and had my fill.

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