辛 — Chinese character
辛
xīn
bitter; toilsome, laborious; 8th heavenly stem
- Pinyin
- xīn
- Radical
- 160 ⾟ (Bitter)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 立 十
- Formation
- pictographic — A hot iron used to brand prisoners and slaves
- Japanese
- 辛 as a kanji
Common words with 辛
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 辛苦 | xīn kǔ | exhausting; hard |
| 艰辛 (艱辛) | jiān xīn | hardships; arduous |
| 辛勤 | xīn qín | hardworking; industrious |
| 辛辣 | xīn là | spicy hot (taste); fig. biting (criticism) |
| 辛辛苦苦 | xīn xīn kǔ kǔ | painstakingly; with great trouble |
| 辛劳 (辛勞) | xīn láo | laborious |
| 辛酸 | xīn suān | pungent (taste); bitter |
| 千辛万苦 (千辛萬苦) | qiān xīn wàn kǔ | to suffer untold hardships (idiom); trials and tribulations; with difficulty |
| 辛丑 | xīn chǒu | thirty-eighth year H2 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1961 or 2021; cf 辛丑條約|辛丑条约, Protocol of Beijing of 1901 ending the 8-nation intervention after the Boxer uprisi |
| 辛亥 | xīn hài | forty-eighth year H12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1971 or 2031; cf 辛亥革命 (Xīn hài Gé mìng), Xinhai Revolution of 1911 |
| 辛迪加 | xīn dí jiā | (loanword) syndicate |
| 含辛茹苦 | hán xīn rú kǔ | to suffer every possible torment (idiom); bitter hardship; to bear one's cross |
English words written with 辛
辛 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.