怨 yuàn
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 心 — heart
- Made of
- 夗 to turn over when asleep 心 heart
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
怨气
yuànqì
grievance; resentment
Characters in this word
气 qì
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 气 — air, gas
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 员工的怨气并非来自加班本身，而是来自不透明的考核制度。 Yuángōng de yuànqì bìngfēi láizì jiābān běnshēn, ér shì láizì bù tòumíng de kǎohé zhìdù. The employees' resentment does not come from overtime itself, but from the opaque assessment system.
- 他心里憋着一股怨气，整天沉着脸不说话。 Tā xīnli biēzhe yī gǔ yuànqì, zhěngtiān chénzhe liǎn bù shuōhuà. He keeps a grudge bottled up inside, staying silent all day with a grim face.
- 通过一次坦诚的谈话，两人多年的怨气终于化解了。 Tōngguò yí cì tǎnchéng de tánhuà, liǎng rén duōnián de yuànqì zhōngyú huàjiěle. Through one honest conversation, the two people finally dissolved years of accumulated resentment.
Related words
- 抱怨 bàoyuàn to complain
- 怨 yuàn to blame
- 恩怨 ēnyuàn gratitude and resentment; grievances
- 埋怨 mányuàn to complain; to blame
- 怨恨 yuànhèn to resent bitterly; resentment
- 怨言 yuànyán complaint; grievance
- 不客气 búkèqi you're welcome
- 生气 shēngqì angry; to get angry
- 天气 tiānqì weather
- 空气 kōngqì air
- 气 qì air; anger
- 气温 qìwēn air temperature