辛 — kanji meaning “spicy”
辛
spicy, bitter, hot, acrid
- Meanings
- spicy, bitter, hot, acrid
- On'yomi
- シン (shin)
- Kun'yomi
- から.い、つら.い、-づら.い、かのと
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- 8
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 2
- Newspaper frequency
- #1607 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 160
- Chinese reading
- xīn — Chinese character page
Words with 辛
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 辛い | からい karai | spicy; hot |
| 辛口 | からくち karakuchi | dry taste (e.g. sake, wine) |
| 香辛料 | こうしんりょう koushinryou | spice; spices; condiment |
| 辛抱 | しんぼう shinbou | patience; endurance; perseverance |
| 辛い | つらい tsurai | painful; bitter; heart-breaking |
| 唐辛子 | とうがらし tougarashi | capsicum (Capsicum annuum, esp. the cultivated chili peppers); chili pepper (chile, chilli); cayenne |
| 辛うじて | かろうじて karoujite | barely; narrowly; only just |
| 辛酸 | しんさん shinsan | hardships; privation |
| 辛い | づらい zurai | difficult to ... (physically or emotionally); hard to ... |
| 塩辛い | しおからい shiokarai | salty (taste); briny |
| 塩辛 | しおから shiokara | shiokara; paste made from salted fermented seafood (squid, fish entrails, etc.) |
| 辛苦 | しんく shinku | hardship; toil; trouble |
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