烦心事

煩心事
fánxīnshì
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 worries; troubles
  2. 2 things weighing on one's mind

Examples

Tā zuìjìn fánxīnshì tài duō, zhěng tiān zhòu zhe méitóu.
He's had too many worries lately — he's been frowning all day.
Bǎ fánxīnshì shuō chūlái xīnli jiù qīngsōng duō le.
Once you talk your troubles out, your heart feels much lighter.

Tips

memory
'vex / annoy' + 'heart' + 'matter' — literally 'heart-vexing matters'. The compound 烦心 itself is a verb-object pair meaning 'to vex the heart', and adding nominalizes it as the things doing the vexing.

Stroke Order

fán
xīn
shì