hờn

Thân thiện

Trẻ con hờn vì không được mua đồ chơi.

Definition

1. Verb:
   • To sulk, to pout: To show silent, often childish, anger or displeasure, typically by withdrawing or refusing to interact.
   • To resent, to bear a grudge: To feel or show deep, often bitter, anger or ill-will because of a real or perceived wrong.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Đứa trẻ hờn mẹ vì không được mua đồ chơi. (The child sulked at his mother because he wasn't bought a toy.)
  • Cô ấy hờn tôi cả tuần chỉ vì một lời nói đùa. (She resented me for a whole week just because of a joke.)
  • Nó hờn không chịu ăn cơm. (He sulked and refused to eat.)

Advanced Usage

• "hờn dỗi": to sulk and be petulant (often used together as a compound).
  • Sau khi bị mắng, nó ngồi hờn dỗi một góc. (After being scolded, he sat in a corner sulking.)
• "hờn mát": to pretend to sulk or pout playfully, often to gain attention or affection.
  • Đừng hờn mát nữa, anh xin lỗi mà. (Stop pretending to pout, I said I'm sorry.)

Variants and Related Words

• Giận hờn (compound verb): to be angry and resentful.
  • Cô ấy giận hờn bỏ về nhà ngoại. (She left angrily and resentfully for her parents' house.)
• Hờn tủi (compound adjective/verb): feeling resentful and hurt, often with a sense of injustice.
  • Sống trong cảnh bị đối xử bất công, lòng cô đầy hờn tủi. (Living under unjust treatment, her heart was full of resentment and hurt.)

Synonyms

• Giận: to be angry (a stronger, more general term for anger).
• Dỗi: to sulk, to be in a pet (often implies a more temporary, childish state than ).
• Oán giận / oán hận: to harbor hatred or deep resentment (stronger and more lasting than ).

Related Idioms

• Hờn duyên tủi phận: To resent one's unhappy love life and feel humiliated by one's sad lot/fate.
  • Câu ca dao thể hiện nỗi lòng hờn duyên tủi phận của người phụ nữ xưa. (The folk song expresses the feeling of resenting one's unhappy love and lamenting one's fate of women in the past.)
• Hờn cả thế gian: To resent the whole world (to feel generalized, pervasive resentment).
  • Sau biến cố, anh ta như hờn cả thế gian. (After the incident, he seemed to resent the whole world.)

Học thuật

1. Sulk
   • hờn không chịu ăn
     To sulk and refuse to eat
2. Resent
   • Hờn duyên tủi phận
     to resent one's unhappy love and feel humiliaated by one's sad lot