mèn

be sick at heart

With a heavy 滿 heart 滿 also provides the pronunciation

Components

滿
滿 SoundMeaning component
mǎn fill
Meaning component
xīn, xin heart

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartmanXmˤ[o][n]ʔgrieved
Zhengzhangmoːnʔ
muːnʔ
muːns

說文解字

煩也。从心从滿。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

mèn be sick at heart Simplified

With a heavy  heart  also provides the pronunciation

Components

SoundMeaning component
mǎn fill
Meaning component
xīn, xin heart

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode