Radical 160

辛
Radical 160 (U+2F9F)
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
Stroke order animation

Radical 160 or radical bitter (辛部) 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.

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

Further information: wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/辛

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.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+8F9B