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愤

fèn

HSK 6 Character Traditional 憤

What 愤 means

1. indignant
2. anger
3. resentment

Example sentences

• 这让我愤怒。
  This makes me angry.
• 简当时很愤怒。
  Jane was boiling.
• 这让我非常愤怒。
  This makes me so angry.
• 她愤怒地盯着他。
  She angrily stared at him.
• 恐惧很快变成愤怒。
  Fear quickly turned into anger.
• 他的脸上呈现了愤怒。
  Tā de liǎn shàng chéngxiàn le fènnù.
  Anger showed on his face.

Words starting with 愤

• 愤怒fèn nùangry; indignant; wrath
• 愤慨fèn kǎito resent; resentment
• 愤愤fèn fènextremely angry
• 愤恨fèn hènto hate; hatred; to resent
• 愤愤不平fèn fèn bù píngto feel indignant; to feel aggrieved
• 愤然fèn rán(literary) angry; irate
• 愤懑fèn mèndepressed; resentful; discontented
• 愤世嫉俗fèn shì jí súto be cynical; to be embittered
• 愤激fèn jīindignant; outraged
• 愤青fèn qīngangry youth – highly nationalistic young Chinese people (abbr. for 愤怒青年

Words containing 愤

• 气愤qì fènindignant; furious
• 悲愤bēi fèngrief and indignation
• 激愤jī fènto stir up emotions; furious; angry
• 义愤填膺yì fèn tián yīngrighteous indignation fills one's breast (idiom); to feel indignant at injustice
• 义愤yì fènrighteous indignation; moral indignation
• 民愤mín fènpublic outrage
• 发愤fā fènto make a determined effort
• 公愤gōng fènpublic anger; popular indignation
• 感愤gǎn fènmoved to anger; indignant
• 泄愤xiè fènto give vent to anger
• 私愤sī fènpersonal spite; malice
• 积愤jī fènaccumulated anger; pent-up fury
• 羞愤xiū fènashamed and resentful; indignant
• 泄私愤xiè sī fènto vent personal spite; to act out of malice (esp. of crime)
• 不愤不启bù fèn bù qǐa student shall not be enlightened until he has tried hard by himself (idiom)
• 发愤图强fā fèn tú qiángto be strongly determined to succeed (idiom)
• 发愤忘食fā fèn wàng shíso dedicated as to forget one's meals (idiom)
• 义愤填胸yì fèn tián xiōngrighteous indignation fills one's breast (idiom); to feel indignant at injustice
• 怨愤yuàn fènresentment and indignation

Characters built on 贲

These share the phonetic component 贲 (bēn), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 喷pēnto spout; to spurt; to spray; to puff; (slang) to criticize scathingly (esp. online)
• 鲼fènany ray (fish) variety of Myliobatiformes order
• 偾fènto instigate; to ruin; to destroy

Characters that look like 愤

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 禁jìnto prohibit; to forbid
• 偿chángto repay; to compensate for; to recompense
• 楚chǔdistinct; clear; orderly
• 缤bīnused in 缤纷
• 惬qiè(literary) satisfied; content
• 犊dúcalf; sacrificial victim

Sounds the same

Read fèn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 份classifier for gifts, newspaper, magazine, papers, reports, contracts etc; variant of 分
• 奋to exert oneself (bound form)
• 粪manure; dung
• 分part; share; ingredient
• 瀵name of a river; valley vapor
• 忿anger; indignation; hatred
• 鲼any ray (fish) variety of Myliobatiformes order
• 瞓to sleep (Cantonese); Mandarin equivalent: 睡
• 偾to instigate; to ruin; to destroy