嫌々
いやいや · iyaiya · JLPT N1 · expression
unwillingly
🥦 嫌 (dislike) + 々 (repeat mark) = dislike, dislike: doing it reluctantly
The sound matches いや (no!), the word a child repeats while refusing but still giving in. Same core sense: unwilling, yet doing it anyway.
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.'