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