憾 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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hàn

to regret

Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 感 represents the sound.

Components

忄 Meaning component

xin, xīn

heart

忄 is a component form of 心.

感 Sound component

gǎn

feel

Definitions

hàn

to regret, remorse; dissatisfied; regret (sense of loss or dissatisfaction)

Most common words with 憾

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	遗憾	regret
	憾	regret (sense of loss or dissatisfaction)
	缺憾	a regret
	憾事	a matter for regret
	引以为憾	to consider sth regrettable (idiom)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*N-kˤ[ə]mʔ-s	homH	hàn	dissatisfied

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 28.8964% of movies

1337th most common character in movies

2269th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	16
Unicode	U+61BE

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