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.
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.
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.
He vented his spleen on me.
To take out one's anger on someone/something unrelated; implies misdirected spleen.
A fit of temper or rage; can correspond to 'spleen' in literary contexts, but more about sudden outbursts.
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.
After being scolded by my boss, I vented my spleen on my family at home.
彼はちょっとしたことで癇癪を起こす。
He flies into a spleen over little things.