What 怏 means
The core sense is displeasure, often with a feeling of being wronged. Mandarin speakers say it roughly like “yahng,” with the voice falling; Pinyin spells the sound yàng. It can also be a verb meaning to force or pressure someone, so sentence structure matters.
A bronze inscription from the late Warring States period, just before China’s first empire, is an early surviving record of 怏. Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese character dictionary, analyzes it as 心 for the feeling and 央 for the sound.
In Chinese, the displeasure sense is easiest to catch in 怏怏; the single character carries more than one use.
If someone sends 怏 alone, start with displeasure; check the sentence, since a separate verb sense means “to pressure.”
Who writes 怏
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What it means when someone sends it to you
4 readingsDispleasure or resentment; the sentence can also point to the verb sense “to pressure.”
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 怏 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 怏
- Search it as
- 怏 meaning · 怏 yàng · 怏怏不乐 · 怏然自足 · 怏悒 · Japanese reading of 怏 · Chinese character for resentment · yang4
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
怏\600Fyang4 and choose 怏 from the candidates; the 4 marks the falling tone.心中月大; enter the corresponding keys on a Cangjie keyboard.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.