Radical 160 or radical bitter (辛部) meaning "bitter" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.
| 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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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.
Evolution
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Oracle bone script character
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Bronze script character
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Small seal script character
Derived characters
edit| Strokes | Characters |
|---|---|
| +0 | 辛 |
| +5 | 辜 辝 (=辭) |
| +6 | 辞SC/JP (=辭) 辟 (also SC form of 闢 -> 門) 辠 (=罪 -> 网) |
| +7 | 辡 (=辯) 辢 (=辣) 辣 |
| +8 | 辤 (=辭) |
| +9 | 辥 辦 辧 (=辨) 辨 辩SC (=辯) 辪 |
| +10 | 辫SC (=辮) |
| +11 | 辬 (=斑 -> 文) |
| +12 | 辭 |
| +13 | 辮 |
| +14 | 辯 |
Literature
edit- 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.
External links
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