Chinese Character Wiki
怨

yuàn

hatred

Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 夗 represents the sound.

Components
夗 sound component

夗  Sound component

yuàn

  

to turn over when asleep

心 meaning component

心  Meaning component

xīn

  

heart

Evolution

怨 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
怨 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
怨 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

怨  

yuàn

hatred, enmity, resentment; to blame; to complain

Most common words with 怨
Freq.
Word
Meaning

抱怨

to complain

怨

to blame

恩怨

resentment

怨恨

to resent

埋怨

to complain

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ʔ]o[r]-s

'jwonH

yuàn

resentment


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 23.6745% of movies

1481st most common character in movies

1637th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+6028

Shuowen

“怨，恚也。从心，夗聲。，古文。”


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