The Chinese Radical: 辛


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Meaning
bitter, hot    辛

Explanation (picture of a needle for tattoo)

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 4
bitter, (of taste) hot or pungent
xīn
Image of a needle for tattooing (cf. needle 针)
The tattooing needle is bitter and hot.
JLPT HSK 4
hot (spicy), pungent

Left: hot/bitter (needle used for tattoo), right: bundle (Plants / like sheafs of rice (cf.), which are bound with a ribbon as a bundle.)
Hot stuff in a bundle is even hotter.
JLPT HSK 5
debate, argue, discuss, dispute
biàn
Left and right: bitter, sharp (image of a tattoo needle), middle: word /
Sharp words meet in the debate.
JLPT HSK 5
to resign, dismiss, leave, refined language

Left: tongue , right: hot/bitter (needle used for tattoo)
On the tongue it was too bitter: These words made me resign.
JLPT HSK 6
to differentiate, distinguish, recognize
biàn
Twice: bitter, sharp (tattoo needle), middle knife - Thus a double-bladed knife
A double-bladed knife has sharpnesses (at each blade), that differenciate.
JLPT HSK 6
to manage, govern, rule, to slaughter livestock
zǎi
Top: roof , below: hot/spicy/bitter (the image of a needle for tattooing)
Under the roof 'bitterness' is managed.
JLPT HSK 6
monarch, to repel, avoid, dispel, refute, repudiate
bì, pì
Shows: anal penetration, torture (buttock from the side , anus , needle as symbol for penetration or torture)
Penetrating the buttocks with a needle is what the monarch avoids.
JLPT HSK 6
crime, sin, guilt

Top: old (originally: skull, but better the image of a tomb stone), below: bitter, sharp (tattoo needle)
The old and bitter are the guilt of the crimes.
JLPT HSK 6
petal, segment, clove (of garlic), piece, section, fragment
bàn
Outside: bitter, spicy (to stand , ten ), inside: melon (image of a melon in a rope loop hanging from a frame.)
Laterally to the melon stand (blossoms) with each ten petals as their segments.
JLPT HSK 6
to plait, a braid or queue
biàn
Twice: bitter, sharp (tattoo needle), middle thread 纟/
If two sharp threads stick out, they can be plaited.
JLPT no HSK
zinc (chemistry)
xīn
Left: metal 钅/, right: bitter, (of taste) hot
The metal with the pronounciation 'xīn' like at 'bitter' is: zinc.
JLPT no HSK
Catalpa kaempferi, (Indian bean tree), printing blocks

Left: tree , right: bitter, hot (taste) (image of a tattoo needle)
The tree that is bitter is: the Indian bean tree.

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