Keyword
laborious
- bitter
- toilsome
- 8th heavenly stem
- Frequency
- #1512
- Strokes
- 7
Readings
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Mnemonic
A hot iron used to brand prisoners and slaves
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in characters
辩to dispute辞to resign辨to distinguish辟law辣hot辜crime宰to slaughter瓣petal薛wormwood妾concubine锌zinc辫braid梓Chinese catalpa莘long厗stone
Used in vocabulary
辛苦
exhausting; hard; tough; arduous; to work hard; to go to a lot of trouble; hardship(s)
辛
(of taste) hot or pungent; hard; laborious; suffering; eighth in order; eighth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 (shítiāngān); letter "H" or Roman "VIII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc; ancient Chinese compass point: 285°; octa
艰辛
hardships; arduous; difficult
辛亥革命
Xinhai Revolution (1911), which ended the Qing Dynasty
辛勤
hardworking; industrious
辛格
(name) Singh
辛普森
Simpson (name)
赫尔辛基
Helsinki (Swedish Helsingfors), capital of Finland
辛辣
spicy hot (taste); fig. biting (criticism)
辛辛苦苦
painstakingly; with great trouble
辛劳
laborious
辛酸
pungent (taste); bitter; fig. sad; miserable
千辛万苦
to suffer untold hardships (idiom); trials and tribulations; with difficulty; after some effort
辛丑
thirty-eighth year H2 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1961 or 2021; cf 辛丑条约, Protocol of Beijing of 1901 ending the 8-nation intervention after the Boxer uprising
辛亥
forty-eighth year H12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1971 or 2031; cf 辛亥革命 (XīnhàiGémìng), Xinhai Revolution of 1911
基辛格
Henry Kissinger (1923–2023), US academic and politician, Secretary of State 1973–1977
奥斯维辛
Auschwitz (concentration camp)
威斯康辛
Wisconsin
辛辛那提
Cincinnati, Ohio
拉辛
Jean Racine (1639-1699), French dramatist
施瓦辛格
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947–), Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor and politician, governor of California (2003–2011)
辛巴威
Zimbabwe (Tw)
辛迪加
(loanword) syndicate
含辛茹苦
to suffer every possible torment (idiom); bitter hardship; to bear one's cross