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忿

fèn
noun #55,946

Meanings

  1. 1 anger; resentment; indignation

Examples

HSK 7-9
他按捺不住心中的忿，拍了桌子。
Tā ànnà búzhù xīnzhōng de fèn, pāi le zhuōzi.
He could not contain his anger and slammed the table.
HSK 7-9
将不胜其忿而蚁附之。
Jiàng bù shèng qí fèn ér yǐfù zhī.
The general could not master his anger and stormed the wall.

Tips

usage
忿 is the literary cousin of 愤. You will meet it in 忿恨 ('resentful hatred'), 忿怒 ('fury') and 不忿 ('to feel it is unfair'). Everyday speech prefers 生气.
memory
Read it top-to-bottom: 分 over 心. When the heart is 'divided' and torn up, that boiling feeling is 忿 (anger).

Components

radical
心 xīn
heart; mind
心 is the heart radical at the bottom, in its full form. It places 忿 among the emotion characters, since anger is felt in the heart.
phonetic
分 fēn
to divide; to split
分 gives the sound (a tone shift from fēn to fèn) and a hint of meaning: a heart 'split' and unsettled, which is what anger feels like.

Stroke Order

忿 fèn