to want to articulate one's thoughts but be unable to

悱 character breakdown

Kangxi radical 61 (心) as a vertical side element

Looks a bit like a flail.
abbr. for 非洲[Fei1 zhou1], Africa
to not be; not / wrong; incorrect / non-; un-; in-; de- / to reproach; to blame / (coll.) to insist on; simply must

= + 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: a negative film (photography).

Frankenstein's monster (f) made an effort to photograph the Eiffel Tower (ei1), but now his negative (非) is a big mess. In front of the tower he set up a camera on a Cartesian coordinate system (三) as a tripod, and he attached a banana (丿) and a dinosaur bone (丨) to the camera so that he can finely tune the angles. All was for naught as he now holds the messed up negative in his hands.

Characters with 悱 as component

悱 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 悱

a student should not be guided until he has made an effort to express his thoughts (idiom)
(of a person) sad beyond words (idiom) / (of music, literature etc) poignant / very sentimental

Sentences with 悱

悱 currently does not appear in any sentence.