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忿

fèn
noun #55,946

Meanings

  1. 1 anger; resentment; indignation

Examples

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.
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