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怒

nù

anger

Phonosemantic compound. 心 represents the meaning and 奴 represents the sound.

Components
心 meaning component

心  Meaning component

xīn

  

heart

奴 sound component

奴  Sound component

nú

  

slave

Evolution

怒 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
怒 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
怒 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

怒  

nù

anger, rage, passion; angry; anger; fury; flourishing; vigorous

Most common words with 怒
Freq.
Word
Meaning

愤怒

angry

怒

anger

激怒

to infuriate

怒火

rage

怒气

anger

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*C.nˤaʔ

nuX

nù

angry

*C.nˤaʔ-s

nuH

nù

anger, angry; vigorous


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 27.6470% of movies

1285th most common character in movies

1143rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+6012

Shuowen

“怒，恚也。从心，奴聲。”


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