Radical 160 Explained

Uni:8F9B
Meaning:bitter
Pny:xīn
Bopo:ㄒㄧㄣ
Wade:hsin1
Jyutping:san1
Yale:san1
Cn:(Side) 辛字旁 xīnzìpáng(Bottom) 辛字底 xīnzìdǐ
Onyomi:シン shin
Kunyomi:から-い kara-i / つら-い tsura-i
Jp:辛/からい karai
Hang:매울 maeul
Hanja:신 sin
Hanviet:tân

Radical 160 or radical bitter 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.

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

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