Origin

This character combines the heart radical on the left, which indicates an emotion or mental state, with a sound-hint component on the right that suggests the pronunciation フン. The right component originally meant "ornament" or "adorned," but here it serves only to guide how the character sounds rather than to add meaning. Together, the emotional indicator paired with this phonetic hint creates a character expressing the feeling of indignation or resentment—an intense, aroused state of the heart.