悶 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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mèn, mēn

gloomy

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

Components

心 Meaning component

xīn

heart

門 Sound component

mén

door

Evolution

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

闷 (悶)

mèn

gloomy, depressed, melancholy; bored; depressed; melancholy; sealed; airtight; tightly closed

闷 (悶)

mēn

stuffy; shut indoors; to smother; to cover tightly

Most common words with 悶

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	郁闷	gloomy
	闷	bored
	沉闷	heavy
	纳闷	puzzled
	闷闷不乐	depressed

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

燜

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 13.9837% of movies

1849th most common character in movies

1830th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	12
Simplified	闷
Unicode	U+60B6
Shuowen	“悶，懣也。从心，門聲。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

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