Meaning & readings

aroused, resent, be indignant, anger

On’yomi フン
Kun’yomi いきどお.る

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.

AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).

15 strokes

Components

  • radical left
  • sound hint right

A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.

Common words

  • 憤慨 ふんがい indignation; resentment
  • 憤り いきどおり resentment; indignation

Reference

Strokes
15
Kangxi radical
61
Grade
Jōyō (secondary school)
Frequency rank
#1863 (newspapers)
Former JLPT
level 1
Unicode
U+061A4