What 悻 means
It is grievance made visible in someone’s expression or behavior. In the Mencius, an early Chinese philosophical text, an adviser’s anger shows on his face after his ruler rejects his advice; 悻悻然见于其面 means “resentment showed on his face.” The character combines 忄, a left-side component associated with the heart and feelings, with 幸 as a sound hint.
Texts from the Tang and Song periods also use 悻 for a firm or upright disposition, sometimes with a stubborn edge. In present-day Chinese, the anger sense appears mainly in written forms such as 悻然 and 悻悻.
Literary and pointed; a 2021 study groups 悻然 with written descriptions of a person’s state.
In casual Chinese, 悻 alone can sound like a deliberate quotation from classical Chinese.
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2Can 悻 stand alone in casual Chinese?
Yes, but alone it feels clipped and literary; 悻然 and 悻悻 are the more familiar written forms.
Why does 悻 look different in different fonts?
Yes. Fonts can draw its strokes differently because it is text rendered from a typeface; the encoded character stays the same.
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