Radical 160
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 | ||
| 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
Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Small seal script character
Derived characters
| 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
- 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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