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Radical 160

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(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.

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

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Derived characters

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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

Literature

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  • 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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