stuffy / shut indoors / to smother / to cover tightly
bored / depressed / melancholy / sealed / airtight / tightly closed

= + : Mahatma Gandhi (m) lost his heart (心) when he accidentally dropped it through a trap door (门) in the floor of the encampment ((e)n4). As soon as the heart fell through, the door closed very tightly (闷) which makes Mahatma Gandhi quite depressed (闷).

闷 character breakdown

heart / mind / intention / center / core / CL:顆|颗[ke1],個|个[ge4]

= + : Marie Curie (xi) uses a shovel (乚) to dig a hole in front of the encampment ((e)n1). She wants to bury her heart (心). To the side are three petal leaves (丶), with which she wants to cover it afterwards.
surname Men
gate / door / CL:扇[shan4] / gateway / doorway / CL:個|个[ge4] / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / classifier for large guns / classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)

Mahatma Gandhi wants his revenge on the Chinese emperor! Like a spider he sits in the upper left corner of the encampment's kitchen, ready to strike with the trap door he installed in the floor.

Characters with 闷 as component

to cook in a covered vessel / to casserole / to stew

Words with 闷

depressed / sulky / moody / unhappy
oppressive (of weather) / heavy / depressed / not happy / (of sound) dull / muffled
sultry / sultriness / hot and stuffy / stifling hot
to feel oppressed / to be depressed / to feel dejected
depressed / gloomy
alcohol drunk to drown one's sorrows
muffled thunder / (fig.) sudden shock / blow
(coll.) outwardly cold or retiring but deep and passionate inside
depressed / full of worries / feeling down
(coll.) to wonder secretly / to make wild conjectures
to divert oneself from melancholy
to divert one's mind from boredom (idiom)
to divert oneself from melancholy
to faint / to swoon / to lose consciousness
lit. to eliminate worry and dispel melancholy (idiom); diversion from boredom / to dispel depression or melancholy / to relieve stress / a relaxing pass-time
to amass wealth while keeping a low profile (idiom)
lit. closed gourd / fig. enigma / complete mystery / taciturn person

Sentences with 闷

闷 currently does not appear in any sentence.