The Chinese Radical: 辛


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Meaning
bitter, hot    辛

Explanation (picture of a needle for tattoo)

Used in these characters:
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.  
HSK 4
hot (spicy), pungent

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

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

Top: old 古 (originally: skull, but better the image of a tomb stone), below: bitter, sharp 辛 (tattoo needle)
The old and bitter are the guilt of the crimes.  
HSK 6
petal, segment, clove (of garlic), piece, section, fragment
bàn
Outside: bitter, spicy 辛 (to stand 立, ten 十), inside: melon 瓜 (image of a melon in a rope loop hanging from a frame.)
Laterally to the melon stand 立 (blossoms) with each ten 十 petals as their segments.  
HSK 6
to plait, a braid or queue
biàn
Twice: bitter, sharp 辛 (tattoo needle), middle thread 纟/糸
If two sharp threads stick out, they can be plaited.  
no HSK
zinc (chemistry)
xīn
Left: metal 钅/金, right: bitter, (of taste) hot 辛
The metal with the pronunciation 'xīn' like at 'bitter' is: zinc.  
no HSK
Catalpa kaempferi, (Indian bean tree), printing blocks

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

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