The kanji 辛: meaning, readings and stroke order
辛
- Meaning
- spicy, hard
- On reading
- シン shin
- Kun reading
- から(い) karai
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 辛 bitter
- Level
- Level 8 · the last years of junior high
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- cay, vất vả (tân)
- Japanese
- からい。つらい。
- Korean
- 맵다, 괴롭다 (신)
- Chinese
- 辣、辛苦
Readings, words and example sentences
シン shin · on reading · less common
辛ぼう
patience, putting up with
さいごまで 辛ぼうします。
I hang in there until the end.
から(い) karai · kun reading
辛い
spicy, hot
この 料理は 辛いです。
This dish is spicy.
Practise writing 辛 in the app
In Dino Kids your child writes 辛 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 8 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.
Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.