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←  159 Radical 160 ( U+2F9F) 161 →
(U+8F9B) "bitter"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:xīn
Bopomofo:ㄒㄧㄣ
Wade–Giles:hsin1
Cantonese Yale:san1
Jyutping:san1
Japanese Kana:シン shin ( on'yomi)
から-い kara-i / つら-い tsura-i ( kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:신 sin
Hán-Việt:tân
Names
Chinese name(s):(Side) 辛字旁 xīnzìpáng (Bottom) 辛字底 xīnzìdǐ
Japanese name(s):辛/からい karai
Hangul:매울 maeul
Stroke order animation

Radical 160 or radical bitter (辛部) meaning " bitter" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 36 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

In the ancient Chinese cyclic character numeral system tiāngān, 辛 represents the eighth Celestial stem.

is also the 167th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0
+5 (=辭)
+6 SC/JP (=辭) (also SC form of -> ) (= -> )
+7 (=辯) (=辣)
+8 (=辭)
+9 (=辨) SC (=辯)
+10 SC (=辮)
+11 (= -> )
+12
+13
+14

Literature

  • Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN  0-89659-774-1.
  • Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN  978-0-596-51447-1.

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