辛
(of taste) hot or pungent; hard; laborious; suffering; eighth in order; eighth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1]; letter "H" or Roman "VIII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; ancient Chinese compass point: 285°; octa
7 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,219 U+8F9B
How 辛 is formed
Pictograph (象形字)
A hot iron used to brand prisoners and slaves
How to remember it
peppery · Heisig RSH #1183
立 standing up + needle — as a component also called: chili pepper
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 辛 as their sound component
These characters all use 辛 (xīn) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 辛 sound component | xīn | bitter; toilsome, laborious; 8th heavenly stem |
| 辫 | biàn | braid, pigtail, plait; queue |
| 梓 | zǐ | Catalpa ovata |
| 莘 | shēn | numerous, long; a marsh plant with a medicinal root |
| 锌 | xīn | zinc |
Words containing 辛
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 利辛县 | Lì xīn Xiàn | Lixin, a county in Bozhou City 亳州市[Bo2 zhou1 Shi4], Anhui |
| 奥斯威辛集中营 | Ào sī wēi xīn jí zhōng yíng | Auschwitz concentration camp |
| 辛普森一家 | Xīn pǔ sēn yī jiā | The Simpsons (US TV series) |
| 辛集市 | Xīn jí Shì | Xinji, a county-level city in Shijiazhuang City 石家莊市|石家庄市[Shi2 jia1 zhuang1 Shi4], Hebei |
| 基辛格 | Jī xīn gé | Henry Kissinger (1923–2023), US academic and politician, Secretary of State 1973–1977 |
| 奥斯维辛 | Ào sī wéi xīn | Auschwitz (concentration camp) |
| 奥斯威辛 | Ào sī wēi xīn | Auschwitz (concentration camp) |
| 圣哈辛托 | Shèng hā xīn tuō | San Jacinto |
| 史瓦辛格 | Shǐ wǎ xīn gé | (Tw) see 施瓦辛格[Shi1 wa3 xin1 ge2] |
| 五辛素 | wǔ xīn sù | (adjective) non-Buddhist vegetarian (allowing strong-smelling vegetables like garlic and o… |
| 赫尔辛基 | Hè ěr xīn jī | Helsinki (Swedish Helsingfors), capital of Finland |
| 千辛万苦 | qiān xīn wàn kǔ | to suffer untold hardships (idiom); trials and tribulations; with difficulty; after some e… |
| 辛巴威 | Xīn bā wēi | Zimbabwe (Tw) |
| 威斯康辛 | Wēi sī kāng xīn | Wisconsin |
| 拉辛 | Lā xīn | Jean Racine (1639-1699), French dramatist |
| 高辛氏 | Gāo xīn shì | one of the five legendary emperors, also called 嚳|喾[Ku4] |
| 利辛 | Lì xīn | see 利辛縣|利辛县[Li4 xin1 Xian4] |
| 辛贝特 | xīn bèi tè | Shin Bet (Israel national security service) |
| 不辞辛苦 | bù cí xīn kǔ | to make nothing of hardships |
| 施瓦辛格 | Shī wǎ xīn gé | Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947–), Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor and politician, govern… |