Translation guide
The organ spleen, and related figurative expressions for anger or melancholy.
The physical spleen organ in the body.
Standard medical and everyday term for the spleen organ.
Expressing anger, irritability, or venting one's spleen.
vent one's spleen · in a fit of spleen
Literally 'to hurl one's anger', a natural way to express venting anger or spleen.
Old-fashioned sense of spleen as low spirits or melancholy.
a fit of the spleen · suffering from spleen
The English figurative 'spleen' (anger or melancholy) does not translate directly to 脾臓. Use the appropriate emotional expression instead.
事故で脾臓を損傷した。
I injured my spleen in the accident.
Abbreviated form used mainly in medical compounds or traditional East Asian medicine contexts.
Regulate spleen function with Kampo medicine.
He vented his spleen on me.
To take out one's anger on someone/something unrelated; implies misdirected spleen.
After being scolded by my boss, I vented my spleen on my family at home.
A fit of temper or rage; can correspond to 'spleen' in literary contexts, but more about sudden outbursts.
He flies into a spleen over little things.
General term for melancholy or depression; captures the gloomy sense of 'spleen'.
He was suddenly overcome by spleen.
A literary word for languid melancholy or listlessness, close to the archaic spleen.
On an autumn afternoon, I sink into spleen.