辛

Derived terms

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/辛

Glyph origin
of a tool—chisel, awl, spike—used to mark slaves and criminals. It is related to.

Etymology 1
From ; compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (STEDT).

Definitions

 * 1) spicy; hot; pungent
 * 2) hard; laborious; toilsome
 * 3) sorrowful; miserable; hard
 * 1) sorrowful; miserable; hard
 * 1) sorrowful; miserable; hard

Etymology 2
proposes that the name for the heavenly stem is based on the Boötes constellation, which resembles an awl; it may be related to Etymology 1 with the “sharp” semantics connecting the two.

Definitions

 * 1) eighth of the ten heavenly stems
 * 2)  eighth; number 8; VIII
 * 3)  octa-

Descendants
Others:

Etymology 3
.

Definitions

 * 1)  symplectic

Kanji

 * 1) spicy, hot, acrid
 * 2) bitter, painful, difficult

Etymology 1
From.

Proper noun

 * 1) the eighth of the ten heavenly stems

Etymology 2
🇰🇲

Proper noun

 * 1) the eighth of the ten heavenly stems

Hanja

 * 1) bitter
 * 2) toilsome, laborious
 * 3) 8th heavenly stem