adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 (classical) depressed; downcast
  2. 2 (read fèi) angry; in a rage (in 怫然)

Examples

怫然
Wǒ fèirán ér nù.
I flew into a rage.

Tips

history
Not used alone in modern Chinese; it survives in the classical binome 怫然 (suddenly furious) and 怫郁 (gloomy, oppressed). The right side is the phonetic, also seen in and .
register
Classical only; modern speech uses 生气 for anger and 郁闷 for being depressed.

Components

radical
xīn
heart; feeling
The upright heart radical is in left-side form. It marks as a state of mind — pent-up gloom that flares into anger.
phonetic
not (phonetic)
On the right, supplies the sound; it heads the phonetic family behind , and , and adds no meaning here.

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