Radical 160
{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}
{{Infobox Kangxi radical|160
| uni = 8F9B
| meaning = bitter
| pny = xīn
| bopo = ㄒㄧㄣ
| wade = hsin1
| jyutping = san1
| yale = san1
| cn = (Side) 辛字旁 xīnzìpáng
(Bottom) 辛字底 xīnzìdǐ
| onyomi = シン shin
| kunyomi = から-い kara-i / つら-い tsura-i
| jp = 辛/からい karai
| hang = 매울 maeul
| hanja = 신 sin
| hanviet = tân
}}
Radical 160 or radical bitter ({{Lang|zh-Hant|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.
{{Lang|zh-Hans|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
File:辛-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character
File:辛-bronze.svg|Bronze script character
File:辛-seal.svg|Small seal script character
Derived characters
| class="wikitable"
! Strokes !! Characters | |
| +0 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|辛}} |
| +5 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|辜}} {{Linktext|辝}} (=辭) |
| +6 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|辞}}SC/JP (=辭) {{Linktext|辟}} (also SC form of {{Linktext|闢}} -> 門) {{Linktext|辠}} (={{Linktext|罪}} -> 网) |
| +7 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|辡}} (=辯) {{Linktext|辢}} (=辣) {{Linktext|辣}} |
| +8 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|辤}} (=辭) |
| +9 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|辥}} {{Linktext|辦}} {{Linktext|辧}} (=辨) {{Linktext|辨}} {{Linktext|辩}}SC (=辯) {{Linktext|辪}} |
| +10 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|辫}}SC (=辮) |
| +11 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|辬}} (={{Linktext|斑}} -> 文) |
| +12 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|辭}} |
| +13 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|辮}} |
| +14 | style="font-size: large;" | {{Linktext|辯}} |
{{See|wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/辛}}
Literature
- {{cite book|last= Fazzioli |first= Edoardo |others= calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko |title= Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters |year= 1987 |publisher= Abbeville Press |location= New York |isbn= 0-89659-774-1 }}
- {{cite book|last= Lunde |first= Ken |title= CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing |edition= Second |date= Jan 5, 2009 |publisher= O'Reilly Media |location= Sebastopol, Calif. |isbn= 978-0-596-51447-1 |chapter= Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets |chapter-url= http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596514471/cjkvip2e-appJ.pdf }}