fèn

resent

Components
忄 meaning component

  Meaning component

xinxīn

  

heart

heart

賁 sound component

  Sound component

bēn

  

forge ahead

Evolution

憤 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
憤 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
憤 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

fèn

resent, hate; indignant; anger; resentment

Most common words with 憤
Freq.
Word
Meaning

愤怒

angry

气愤

indignant

anger

愤世嫉俗

to be cynical

愤慨

to resent

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b]urʔ

bjunX

fèn

unhappy


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 18.9652% of movies

1546th most common character in movies

1508th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+61A4

Shuowen

“憤,懣也。从心,賁聲。”


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