辛

See also: 幸 and 羍

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – Picture of a tool used to mark slaves and criminals.

辛	辛	辛
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

References

• "辛" (in Mandarin), 字源. URL accessed on 2014-02-22.

Han character

辛 (radical 160 辛+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 卜廿十 (YTJ), four-corner 0040₁, composition ⿱立十)

1. fiery, piquant, hot
2. toilsome, laborious
3. the eighth of the ten heavenly stems
4. a surname

See also

• 鹹

References

• KangXi: page 1250, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38630
• Dae Jaweon: page 1729, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4036, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8F9B

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Cantonese

Hanzi

辛 (Jyutping san1, Yale san1)

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Hakka

Hanzi

辛 (POJ sin, Guangdong sin¹, Hagfa Pinyim xin1)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

辛

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: しん (shin)
• Kun: からい (karai), つらい (tsurai), かのと (kanoto)

Compounds

• 辛党
• 辛味
• 辛気
• 辛気臭い
• 辛苦
• 辛酸
• 辛勝
• 辛抱
• 辛辣
• 辛労

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Korean

Hanja

辛 (sin) (hangeul 신, revised sin, McCune-Reischauer shin, sin, Yale sin)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

辛 (Pinyin xīn (xin1), bì (bi4), mǐ (mi3), pī (pi1), Wade-Giles hsin¹, pi⁴, mi³, p'i¹)

Adjective

辛 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin yǐ)

1. spicy, hot, pungent

   辛辣

2. hard, laborious

   辛苦

3. suffering

   辛酸

Noun

辛 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin yǐ)

1. eighth
2. used for unnamed people or object, to enumerate headings in a list, as equivalent of '8','H' and 'VIII'.
3. The eighth of the ten heavenly stems.

Proper noun

辛 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin yǐ)

1. A surname​.

Compounds

• 辛迪加
• 辛亥革命
• 辛苦
• 辛苦费
• 辛辣
• 辛劳
• 辛勤
• 辛酸

See also

The ten heavenly stems 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸

References

• "辛" (in Mandarin/English), MDBG English to Chinese dictionary ( Based on CC-CEDICT ). URL accessed on 2014-02-18.

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Middle Chinese

Han character

辛 (*sin)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

辛 (TLPA sin (sin¹))

References

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Vietnamese

Han character

辛 (tân, tăn, tơn, tăng)