含冤

hányuān
verb #32,552

Meanings

  1. 1 to be wronged; to suffer false accusation; to bear a grievance unjustly

Examples

Tā hányuān rùyù shí nián, zuìzhōng huòdé píngfǎn.
He spent ten years wrongfully imprisoned and was finally exonerated.
Qiānwàn bùyào ràng wúgū de rén hányuān shòuqū.
Don't ever let innocent people suffer false accusations.

Tips

register
Literary / news register — you'll see it in headlines about wrongful convictions ('含冤25无罪判决'), historical writing about purges, and ghost stories where the dead 含冤 ('died bearing an injustice') and become haunting spirits. Compare with the milder 委屈 (wěiqu, 'feel wronged'), which is for everyday 'unfairness' rather than legal injustice.
memory
('to hold in the mouth') + ('grievance') — to be holding an injustice silently inside, unable to spit it out. The image fits classical Chinese trope: the wronged ghost who returns demanding ('to seek redress').

Stroke Order

hán
yuān