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辛
Mandarin · pinyin xīn#
Meanings · xīn
- (of taste) hot or pungent
- hard
- laborious
- suffering
- eighth in order
- eighth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 shí tiān gān
- letter "H" or Roman "VIII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc
- ancient Chinese compass point: 285°
- octa
Mandarin · pinyin Xīn#
Meanings · Xīn
- surname Xin
Characters in this entry
- 辛
- xīn · bitter; toilsome, laborious; 8th heavenly stem; Kangxi radical 160
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1 · xin1
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
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Cantonese word readings for 辛. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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character · Etymology 1
- spicy; hot; pungent
- hard; laborious; toilsome
- sorrowful; miserable; hard
- a surname
character · Etymology 2
- eighth of the ten heavenly stems
- (in a list) eighth; number 8; VIII
- (organic chemistry) octa-
character · Etymology 3
- (mathematics, attributive) symplectic
character · Etymology 4
- Used in transcription.
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