Kanji1 / 7
辛 kanji
spicy, bitter, hot, acrid
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
シン
Kun readings
からいつらい-づらいかのと
Words with 辛
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N1辛抱Popularpatience; endurance; perseverance
- N1香辛料Popularspice; spices; condiment
- —辛苦Popularhardship; toil; trouble
- —辛酸Popularhardships; privation
- —辛勝Popularnarrow victory
- —辛辣bitter (e.g. criticism); sharp; biting; severe; scathing; harsh
- —辛労hardships; toil; trouble
- —辛亥Metal Boar (48th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1911, 1971, 2031)
- —五辛five pungent roots (in Buddhism or Taoism)
- —細辛Siebold's wild ginger (esp. its dried root or rhizome, used as an antitussive and analgesic in traditional Chinese medicine)
- —葷辛pungent vegetable (e.g. garlic, onion)
- —菫細辛Viola vaginata (violet species)
- —千辛万苦many hardships
- —粒々辛苦toil and moil; working assiduously for; tireless hard work; painstaking labor (labour)
- —艱難辛苦trial and tribulation; hardships; privations; difficulties
- —辛抱強いpatient; persevering
- —辛気臭いdepressing; dark (e.g. story); grim (e.g. expression); irritating; annoying; tedious (work, person, etc.); boring
- —辛苦艱難trials and tribulations; adversities; suffering hardships and troubles
- —辛酸甘苦hardships and joys; tasting the sweets and bitters of life; being well-versed in the ways of the world (having seen much of life)
- —辛亥革命Xinhai Revolution (of China; 1911)