The Chinese word 埋怨 (mányuàn), meaning "to blame" or "to complain (with a sense of resentment)", is a disyllabic compound formed through the combination of two meaningful characters: 埋 (mái), which originally means "to bury" or "to conceal", and 怨 (yuàn), which means "resentment" or "grievance". In this context, the character 埋 takes on an extended, metaphorical meaning of "to harbor" or "to hold within", rather than its literal sense. Thus, the compound semantically represents the act of harboring and inwardly nurturing a feeling of resentment or blame before expressing it, often indirectly. This formation follows a common pattern in Chinese where two characters with related meanings combine to create a nuanced abstract verb, with the first character (埋) modifying the action of the second (怨).