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悲愤 (bēi fèn) — grief and indignation

Definition

悲愤 combines sadness (悲) with anger (愤) at injustice — a moral, indignant grief, not just feeling sad. Far stronger than 伤心 or 难过; used in writing about wrongful events.

noun
grief and indignation

Examples

  • ，悲愤。
    Tīng dào zhè ge xiāo xi, tā gǎn dào fēi cháng bēi fèn.
    Hearing this news, she felt great grief and indignation.
  • 悲愤。
    Tā huái zhe bēi fèn de xīn qíng xiě xià le zhè shǒu shī.
    He wrote this poem with a heart full of grief and indignation.
  • ，悲愤。
    Miàn duì bù gōng píng de shì qing, rén men xīn zhōng chōng mǎn le bēi fèn.
    Faced with unfair matters, people's hearts are filled with grief and indignation.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
联合liánhéCoordinate

Two parts of equal weight, alike or opposite in meaning, standing side by side.

悲bēigrief
愤fènindignation

悲 is grief and 愤 is indignation, so the two feelings combine into grief and indignation.

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
心心xīnheart; thought; emotion
Sound part声符shēngfú
非
非fēi悲bēi
Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

悲 pairs 非 as the sound part with 心, the heart/emotion part.

Open 悲 →

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 憤; 愤 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
忄Written in full as心xīnheart
Sound part声符shēngfú
賁
賁bì憤fèn
Close in sound todayThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 憤 pairs 忄 (heart) with 賁, which gives the sound; the simplified 愤 is a later shorthand.

Open 愤 →
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