辛

See also: 幸, 羍, and 푸

辛 U+8F9B, 辛 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8F9B ← 辚 [U+8F9A] CJK Unified Ideographs 辜 → [U+8F9C]

⾟ U+2F9F, ⾟ KANGXI RADICAL BITTER ← ⾞ [U+2F9E] Kangxi Radicals ⾠ → [U+2FA0]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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Radical 160 辛

辛 (Kangxi radical 160, 辛+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 卜廿十 (YTJ), four-corner 0040₁, composition ⿱立十 or ⿱亠𢆉)

1. Kangxi radical #160, ⾟.

Derived terms

• Appendix:Chinese radical/辛
• 𠉄, 㖕, 垶, 㛙, 㢹, 𢓫, 𭝅, 𭡄, 㳯, 𬯁, 梓, 𤈼, 𤙡, 𬍧, 𦛛, 𥏔, 𪿢, 𥞽, 𮇞, 𦀓, 𦐹, 𫋁, 觪, 䛨, 𨁅, 𨌍, 𬪬, 鋅(锌), 𤨘, 𮧝, 𮨬, 騂(骍), 𥋑, 𩷔, 𫓅
• 𧗶, 乵, 㲔, 𣐽, 㖖, 𧱏, 厗, 宰, 屖, 峷, 莘, 𣇛, 𤽮, 𥭴, 㾕, 𨴲, 𭍤
• 嶭, 薛, 巕, 㸉

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1250, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38630
• Dae Jaweon: page 1729, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4036, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8F9B

Chinese

simp. and trad.		辛
alternative forms		䇂 亲

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 辛
Shang		Western Zhou	Spring and Autumn	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

	Old Chinese
親	*sʰin, *sʰins
寴	*sʰin, *sʰins
儭	*sʰins, *sʰrins
瀙	*sʰins, *ʔsrin, *sʰrins
辛	*siŋ
新	*siŋ
薪	*siŋ
襯	*sʰrins
櫬	*sʰrins
嚫	*t͡sʰrinh
莘	*sriŋ
騂	*seŋ
垶	*seŋ
觪	*seŋ

Characters in the same phonetic series (辛) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

Pictogram (象形) of a tool—chisel, awl, spike—used to mark slaves and criminals. The characters 䇂 and 亲 are two variants. The former (䇂) is the original version, while the latter is a conflation of both 亲 and 𣓀, a chisel over a tree to indicate the hazelnut branch which was flexible enough to be used as a whip.

It appears as 立 on the top of characters such as 妾, 竟, and 童. Unrelated to 音 and 競, in which it represents the tip of a tongue on top of an open mouth. See also 辡.

Etymology 1

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-sin (“liver; heart; bile; bitter”); compare Tibetan མཆིན (mchin, “liver”), Burmese သည်း (sany:, “liver”), Tangut 𗮰 (*sji², “liver”) (Gong, 2002; Schuessler, 2007; STEDT).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character	辛
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	眞 (43)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	息鄰切
Baxter	sin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/sin/
Shao Rongfen	/sjen/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sin/
Li Rong	/siĕn/
Wang Li	/sĭĕn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/si̯ĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xīn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	san1

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	辛
Reading #	1/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xīn
Middle Chinese	‹ sin ›
Old Chinese	/*[s]i[n]/
English	pungent; painful
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	辛
Reading #	1/1
No.	13810
Phonetic component	辛
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	新
Old Chinese	/*siŋ/
Notes	甲文象黥刺刀具， 𠞂（皮傷）初文

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): xīn (xin¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄣ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): xin¹

• Cantonese (Jyutping): san¹
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): sîn

  (Meixian, Guangdong): xin¹

• Northern Min (KCR): séng
• Eastern Min (BUC): sĭng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): sin

  (Teochew, Peng'im): sing¹

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹shin

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sin
    • Wade–Giles: hsin¹
    • Yale: syīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shin
    • Palladius: синь (sinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕin⁵⁵/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: xin¹
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: xin
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕin⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: san¹
    • Yale: sān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: san¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sîn
    • Hakka Romanization System: xin^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: xin¹
    • Sinological IPA: /sin²⁴/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: xin¹
    • Sinological IPA: /sin⁴⁴/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: séng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /seiŋ⁵⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: sĭng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sin
    • Tâi-lô: sin
    • Phofsit Daibuun: syn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sin⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sin³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sin⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sin⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sin⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: sing¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sing
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siŋ³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹shin
    • MiniDict: shin^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹xin
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɕin⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: sin

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[s]i[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*siŋ/

Definitions

辛

1. spicy; hot; pungent

   辛辣  ―  xīnlà  ―  spicy

2. hard; laborious; toilsome

   辛苦  ―  xīnkǔ  ―  laborious

3. sorrowful; miserable; hard

   辛酸  ―  xīnsuān  ―  bitter

4. a surname

   辛棄疾／辛弃疾  ―  Xīn Qìjí  ―  Xin Qiji (Chinese poet during the Southern Song dynasty)

Synonyms

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		辛
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		辣, 辛辣
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	辣
	Taiwan	辣
	Chifeng	辣
	Hulunbuir (Hailar)	辣
	Harbin	辣
	Shenyang	辣
	Malaysia	辣
	Singapore	辣
Jilu Mandarin	Tianjin	辣
	Tangshan	辣
	Cangzhou	辣
	Baoding	辣
	Shijiazhuang	辣
	Jinan	辣
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	辣
	Qingdao	辣
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	麻
	Zhengzhou	辣
	Xi'an	辣
	Xining	辣
	Xuzhou	辣
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	辣
	Lanzhou	辣
	Ürümqi	辣
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	辣
	Chongqing	辣
	Wuhan	辣
	Guiyang	辣
	Kunming	辣
	Guilin	辣
	Liuzhou	辣
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	辣
	Yangzhou	辣
	Nantong	辣
	Hefei	辣
Cantonese	Guangzhou	辣
	Hong Kong	辣
	Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)	辣
	Hong Kong (Ting Kok)	辣
	Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)	辣
	Taishan	辣
	Dongguan	辣
	Yangjiang	辣
	Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)	辣
	Singapore (Guangfu)	辣
	Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu)	辣
Gan	Nanchang	辣
	Lichuan	辣
	Pingxiang	辣
Hakka	Meixian	辣
	Dongguan (Qingxi)	辣
	Heyuan (Bendihua)	辣
	Wengyuan	辣
	Liannan	辣
	Jiexi	辣
	Zhao'an (Xiuzhuan)	辣
	Changting	辣
	Wuping (Yanqian)	辣
	Ninghua	辣
	Yudu	辣
	Ningdu	辣
	Tonggu (Sandu)	辣
	Ganzhou (Panlong)	辣
	Dayu	辣
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	辣
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	辣
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	辣
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	辣
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	辣
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	薟
	Hong Kong	辣
	Mengshan (Xihe)	辣
	Luchuan	辣
	Senai (Huiyang)	辣
Huizhou	Jixi	辣
	Shexian	辣
Jin	Taiyuan	辣
	Xinzhou	辣
	Linhe	辣
	Jining	辣
	Hohhot	辣
	Zhangjiakou	辣
	Handan	辣
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	辣
Southern Min	Xiamen	辣
	Quanzhou	辣
	Zhangzhou	辣
	Zhao'an	薟
	Dongshan	薟
	Taipei	薟
	Taipei (Wanhua)	薟
	New Taipei (Tamsui)	薟
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	薟
	New Taipei (Pingxi)	薟
	Kaohsiung	薟
	Yilan	薟
	Changhua (Lukang)	薟
	Taichung	薟
	Taichung (Wuqi)	薟
	Tainan	辣, 薟
	Taitung	薟
	Hsinchu	薟
	Kinmen	辣
	Penghu (Magong)	辣
	Penang (Hokkien)	薟, 辣
	Singapore (Hokkien)	薟, 辣
	Manila (Hokkien)	風, 辣
	Chaozhou	薟
	Shantou	薟
	Shantou (Chenghai)	薟
	Shantou (Chaoyang)	薟
	Jieyang	薟
	Haifeng	薟
	Bangkok (Teochew)	薟
	Johor Bahru (Teochew)	薟
	Singapore (Teochew)	薟
	Pontianak (Teochew)	薟
	Wenchang	辣
	Haikou	辣
	Qionghai	辣
	Singapore (Hainanese)	辣
Puxian Min	Putian	辣
	Putian (Donghai, Chengxiang)	辣
	Putian (Jiangkou, Hanjiang)	辣
	Putian (Nanri, Xiuyu)	辣
	Xianyou	辣
	Xianyou (Fengting)	辣
	Xianyou (Youyang)	辣
Central Min	Yong'an	辣
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	辣
Shehua	Fu'an	辣
	Fuding	辣
	Luoyuan	辣
	Sanming	辣
	Shunchang	辣
	Hua'an	辣
	Guixi (Zhangping)	辣
	Cangnan	辣
	Jingning (Hexi)	辣
	Lishui	辣
	Longyou	辣
	Chaozhou	辣
	Fengshun	辣
Wu	Shanghai	辣
	Shanghai (Chongming)	辣
	Suzhou	辣
	Danyang	辣
	Hangzhou	辣
	Ningbo	辣
	Wenzhou	辣
	Jinhua	辣
	Jinhua (Tangxi)	辣農
Xiang	Changsha	辣
	Loudi	辣

Dialectal synonyms of 辣 (“spicy”) [map]

Compounds

• 下辛 (Xiàxīn)
• 下辛店 (Xiàxīndiàn)
• 不辭辛勞／不辞辛劳
• 備嘗辛苦／备尝辛苦
• 千辛百苦
• 千辛萬苦／千辛万苦 (qiānxīnwànkǔ)
• 后辛
• 吃辛受苦
• 吃辛吃苦
• 含辛茹苦 (hánxīnrúkǔ)
• 悲辛 (bēixīn)
• 攞苦嚟辛／𫽋苦嚟辛
• 熬辛吃苦
• 白辛樹／白辛树
• 萬苦千辛／万苦千辛
• 秘辛 (mìxīn)
• 細辛／细辛 (xìxīn)
• 艱辛／艰辛 (jiānxīn)
• 芥辛絲子／芥辛丝子
• 芥辛菜
• 苦辛 (kǔxīn)
• 茹苦含辛
• 葷辛／荤辛
• 辛勞／辛劳 (xīnláo)
• 辛勤 (xīnqín)
• 辛夷 (xīnyí)
• 辛寒
• 辛榨 (Xīnzhà)
• 辛盤／辛盘
• 辛苦 (xīnkǔ)
• 辛螫
• 辛辛苦苦 (xīnxīnkǔkǔ)
• 辛辣 (xīnlà)
• 辛酸 (xīnsuān)
• 酸辛
• 馬腳細辛／马脚细辛
• 高辛氏

 

Etymology 2

Smith (2011) proposes that the name for the heavenly stem is based on the Boötes constellation, which resembles an awl; it may be related to Etymology 1 with the “sharp” semantics connecting the two.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character	辛
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	眞 (43)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	息鄰切
Baxter	sin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siɪn/
Pan Wuyun	/sin/
Shao Rongfen	/sjen/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sin/
Li Rong	/siĕn/
Wang Li	/sĭĕn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/si̯ĕn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xīn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	san1

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	辛
Reading #	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xīn
Middle Chinese	‹ sin ›
Old Chinese	/*si[n]/
English	8th heavenly stem
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	辛
Reading #	1/1
No.	13810
Phonetic component	辛
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	新
Old Chinese	/*siŋ/
Notes	甲文象黥刺刀具， 𠞂（皮傷）初文

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): xīn (xin¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄣ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): xin¹

• Cantonese (Jyutping): san¹
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): sîn

  (Meixian, Guangdong): xin¹

• Northern Min (KCR): séng
• Eastern Min (BUC): sĭng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): sin

  (Teochew, Peng'im): sing¹

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹shin

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sin
    • Wade–Giles: hsin¹
    • Yale: syīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shin
    • Palladius: синь (sinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕin⁵⁵/
  • (Chengdu)
    • Sichuanese Pinyin: xin¹
    • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: xin
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕin⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: san¹
    • Yale: sān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: san¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐn⁵⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: sîn
    • Hakka Romanization System: xin^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: xin¹
    • Sinological IPA: /sin²⁴/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: xin¹
    • Sinological IPA: /sin⁴⁴/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: séng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /seiŋ⁵⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: sĭng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siŋ⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: sin
    • Tâi-lô: sin
    • Phofsit Daibuun: syn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /sin⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /sin³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /sin⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /sin⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /sin⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: sing¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: sing
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siŋ³³/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹shin
    • MiniDict: shin^平
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹xin
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɕin⁵³/

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• Middle Chinese: sin

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*si[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*siŋ/

Definitions

辛

1. eighth of the ten heavenly stems
2. (in a list) eighth; number 8; VIII
3. (organic chemistry) octa-

Coordinate terms

• (Chinese heavenly stems) 天干 (tiāngān); 甲 (jiǎ), 乙 (yǐ), 丙 (bǐng), 丁 (dīng), 戊 (wù), 己 (jǐ), 庚 (gēng), 辛 (xīn), 壬 (rén), 癸 (guǐ) ^{(Category: zh:Chinese heavenly stems)}

Compounds

• 庚辛
• 辛丑和約／辛丑和约
• 辛亥革命 (Xīnhài Gémìng)

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (辛):

• → Japanese: 辛(しん) (shin)
• → Korean: 신(辛) (sin)
• → Vietnamese: tân (辛)

Others:

• → Zhuang: sin

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English symplectic.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xīn (xin¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): san¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sin
    • Wade–Giles: hsin¹
    • Yale: syīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shin
    • Palladius: синь (sinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕin⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: san¹
    • Yale: sān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: san¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐn⁵⁵/

Definitions

辛

1. (mathematics, attributive) symplectic

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xīn (xin¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): san¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sin
    • Wade–Giles: hsin¹
    • Yale: syīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shin
    • Palladius: синь (sinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕin⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: san¹
    • Yale: sān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: san¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐn⁵⁵/

Definitions

辛

1. Used in transcription.

Compounds

• 戴奧辛／戴奥辛 (dài'àoxīn)
• 赫爾辛基／赫尔辛基 (Hè'ěrxīnjī)
• 辛巴威 (Xīnbāwēi)
• 辛巴達／辛巴达
• 辛辛那提 (Xīnxīnnàtí)

 

Japanese

Kanji

See also:

Category:Japanese terms spelled with 辛

辛

(Jōyō kanji)

1. spicy, hot, acrid
2. bitter, painful, difficult

Readings

• Go-on: しん (shin, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: しん (shin, Jōyō)
• Kun: からい (karai, 辛い, Jōyō)、つらい (tsurai, 辛い)、かのと (kanoto, 辛)

Compounds

• 辛党(からとう) (karatō)
• 辛味(からみ) (karami)
• 辛気(しんき) (shinki)
• 辛気臭(しんきくさ)い (shinkikusai)
• 辛苦(しんく) (shinku)
• 辛酸(しんさん) (shinsan)
• 辛勝(しんしょう) (shinshō)
• 辛抱(しんぼう) (shinbō)
• 辛辣(しんらつ) (shinratsu)
• 辛労(しんろう) (shinrō)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
辛
しん Grade: S
on'yomi

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辛

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From Middle Chinese 辛 (sin).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) しん [shíꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ɕĩɴ]

• Homophones: 心, 臣, 参, 芯, 信, 神, 真, 紳, 軫, 寝, 新, 箴, 震, 親, 讖

Proper noun

辛(しん) • (Shin) 

1. the eighth of the ten heavenly stems

   Hypernyms: 天干 (tenkan), 十干 (jikkan)

   Coordinate terms: 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
辛
かのと Grade: S
kun'yomi

金 (Ka, “Metal”, one of the Five Elements) +‎ の (no, attributive marker) +‎ 弟 (oto, “younger brother”)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) かのと [kànóꜜtò] (Nakadaka – [2])
• (Tokyo) かのと [kànótó] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ka̠no̞to̞]

Proper noun

辛(かのと) • (Kanoto) 

1. the eighth of the ten heavenly stems

   Hypernyms: 天干 (tenkan), 十干 (jikkan)

   Coordinate terms: 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸

Korean

Hanja

辛 (eumhun 매울 신 (mae'ul sin))

1. bitter
2. toilsome, laborious
3. 8th heavenly stem

Vietnamese

Han character

辛: Hán Nôm readings: tân, tăn, tơn

1. chữ Hán form of Tân (“eighth of the ten heavenly stems”).

   Hypernyms: 天干, 十干

   Coordinate terms: 甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸

Compounds

• 辛丑 (Tân Sửu)
• 辛亥 (Tân Hợi)
• 辛卯 (Tân Mão)
• 辛巳 (Tân Tỵ)
• 辛未 (Tân Mùi)
• 辛酉 (Tân Dậu)