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恨

hèn

hatred

Phonosemantic compound. 忄 represents the meaning and 艮 represents the sound.

Components
忄 meaning component

忄  Meaning component

xin, xīn

  

heart

忄 is a component form of 心.

艮 sound component

艮  Sound component

gěn, gèn

  

blunt

Evolution

恨 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
恨 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
恨 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
恨 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
恨 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

恨  

hèn

hatred, dislike; resent, hate; to hate; to regret

Most common words with 恨
Freq.
Word
Meaning

恨

to hate

仇恨

to hate

憎恨

to detest

恨不得

wishing one could do sth

怨恨

to resent

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[m-q]ˤə[n]-s

honH

hèn

regret


Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 38.6513% of movies

1011th most common character in movies

1295th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+6068

Shuowen

“恨，怨也。从心，艮聲。”


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