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郁闷

yù mèn

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 鬱悶

郁闷 (yù mèn) means "gloomy; depressed". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 郁闷 means

1. gloomy
2. depressed

The characters in 郁闷

• 郁yù(bound form) strongly fragrant
• 闷mènbored; depressed; melancholy

Example sentences

• 汤姆失业后，为了排遣郁闷的心情而开始了赌博。
  Tāngmǔ shīyè hòu, wèile páiqiǎn yùmèn de xīnqíng ér kāishǐ le dǔbó.
  After Tom lost his job, he started to gamble to cope with his depression.

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