Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 辛

Modern (Beijing) reading: xīn

Preclassic Old Chinese: sin

Classic Old Chinese: sin

Western Han Chinese: sjǝn

Eastern Han Chinese: sjǝn

Early Postclassic Chinese: sjin

Middle Postclassic Chinese: sjin

Late Postclassic Chinese: sjin

Middle Chinese: sjin

Fanqie: 西因

Rhyme class: 真

English meaning : the 8th of the Heavenly Stems

Russian meaning[s]: 1) горький, терпкий; острый; 2) удручающий, тяжелый, скорбный; тяжело трудиться; 3) восьмой циклический знак десятеричного цикла; восьмой; 4) Синь (фамилия)

Shuowen gloss: 秋時萬物成而孰. 金剛味辛. 辛痛即泣出. 從一. 從[辛]. [辛]罪也. 辛承庚象人股. 凡辛之屬皆從辛.

Comments: Used also for a homonymous *sin 'be bitter, pungent, painful'.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 160

Four-angle index: 2405

Karlgren code: 0382 a-f

Jianchuan Bai: ćhĩ4

Dali Bai: ćhi4

Bijiang Bai: chẽ4

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