Chinese symbol for “sulking”
愠怒
yùn nù
Traditional: 慍怒
inwardly angry; indignant; sulking; sullen
The closest CC-CEDICT match for sulking is 愠怒 (yùn nù), defined as: inwardly angry; indignant; sulking; sullen.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 愠怒.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不愠不火 (不慍不火) | bù yùn bù huǒ | calm; unruffled |
| 愤怒 (憤怒) | fèn nù | angry; indignant |
| 激怒 | jī nù | to infuriate; to enrage |
| 怒火 | nù huǒ | rage; fury |
| 怒气 (怒氣) | nù qì | anger |
| 怒吼 | nù hǒu | to bellow; to rave |
| 发怒 (發怒) | fā nù | to get angry |
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.