chēn
be angry at
Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 真 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 嗔
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to be angry at | ||
(of a girl) to feign anger coquettishly | ||
to blame | ||
to get angry | ||
to complain |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3546th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+55D4 |
Shuowen | “嗔,盛气也。从口,真聲。《詩》曰:‘振旅嗔嗔。’” |
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