Can homophonic kanji (in this case 怨 and 恨) be used purely to avoid repetition?


I came across this sentence in 雁:

> 一体お玉の持っている悔やしいと云う概念には、世を怨み人を恨む意味が甚だ薄い。

My understanding is that 恨, unlike 怨, can convey not only resentment but also
regret. My questions are the following:

(1) Does 恨 carry anything like this connotation in the context of "人を恨む"? Does
"人を恨む" express something less aggressive than "人を怨む"?

(2) Are two different kanji for うらむ used here simply to avoid repeating kanji
within a short span of text? If so, does this practice generally nullify the
particular connotations of the homophonic kanji in question? For example, if 恨
were used purely to avoid repetition, could it ever connote regret, or would
it only express resentment?




(1)It cannot be determined whether the ”恨む” include regret or not. More before
and after sentences are needed for me to judge it.

(2)Recently even Japanese can rarely distinguish these two kanji for
うらむbecause "恨む" is way more common, and almost nobody without writers of pure
literature uses "怨む". However, I suppose that your practice sentence was
quoted from a pure literature, so that the author used these two different
Kanji to differentiate the meaning. To avoid the repetition of same Kanji,
they don't change the kanji itself but change the verb itself because they
know, to be exact, every Kanji has a subtle different meaning from each other.
In this case, I suppose "恨む" contains regretful meaning, and "怨む" express more
aggressive and is pure curse to someone.

Anyway, Japanese except writers of pure literature don't use "怨む" so much in
daily life because they don't know the difference correctly.




(1)It cannot be determined whether the ”恨む” include regret or not. More before
and after sentences are needed for me to judge it.

(2)Recently even Japanese can rarely distinguish these two kanji for
うらむbecause "恨む" is way more common, and almost nobody without writers of pure
literature uses "怨む". However, I suppose that your practice sentence was
quoted from a pure literature, so that the author used these two different
Kanji to differentiate the meaning. To avoid the repetition of same Kanji,
they don't change the kanji itself but change the verb itself because they
know, to be exact, every Kanji has a subtle different meaning from each other.
In this case, I suppose "恨む" contains regretful meaning, and "怨む" express more
aggressive and is pure curse to someone.

Anyway, Japanese except writers of pure literature don't use "怨む" so much in
daily life because they don't know the difference correctly.

