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辛 means 'spicy'

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Strokes : 7    Radical number: 160    Frequency: 1235   JLPT: N2    Usefulness: 4    Study set: 4-16    Grade: 8   Intermediate lesson: 50    Beginner lesson: -   Begins 45 words   Used in 93 words   Used in 57 names   Component in 55 kanji (7 Jōyō)
Jōyō (常用)
Common readings
On
   シン
Kun
   からい spicy
Additional readings
Kun    つらい painful, bitter   かのと   -づらい
Variants
⾟ (Chinese)  
Notes
A Joy o' Kanji essay is available for 辛 - click the badge to download
This essay will make your mouth and eyes water! You'll encounter words for "spicy," "salty," and "mustard," plus a regional dish with shiso leaves rolled around chili peppers. You'll learn to order dry saké or vodka diluted with tomato juice. This essay even shows how to make kanji sandwiches with the 辛 radical. Good times! Oh, and it explores bitterness about life's hardships!
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Essay 1432 on 辛 (spicy; bitter; "bitter" radical) tells you all about this radical, which helps you resign (辞: 500) from a job that's going nowhere, as if you've hit a wall (壁: 1780). By the way, 辛 is the radical in 辞 but just a component in 壁.
Components
⿱  立 stand  十 ten  
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See also
鹹 salty  幸 happiness  
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Most useful words by reading
In the most useful 10,000 words in Japanese, 辛 is used 8 times, read 2 ways.
Across all words in Japanese, 辛 is used 83 times, read 5 ways (with 1 variation).
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シン : 24 words FIND ALL
し ん ぼ う 1
patience; endurance
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かのと : 3 words FIND ALL
か の と 1
Most common form: かのと
noun
8th in rank; eighth sign of the Chinese calendar
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からい : 33 words FIND ALL
か ら い 2
1. spicy; hot
2. salty
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からい (read as がら) : 11 words FIND ALL
と う が ら し 0
noun
1. capsicum (Capsicum annuum, esp. the cultivated chili peppers); chili pepper (chile, chilli); cayenne; red pepper  (see also: ピーマン)
2. shichimi pepper  (see also: 七味唐辛子; abbreviation)
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つらい : 7 words FIND ALL
つ ら い 0 つ ら い 2
1. painful; bitter; heart-breaking; difficult (emotionally)  (often written with kana only)
2. tough; difficult; hard (usu. of situations)  (see also: 辛い; often written with kana only)
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-づらい (read as づら) : 5 words FIND ALL
1. hard to see
2. painful to look at
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An additional one less common word includes 辛 but the reading has not yet been categorized.
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Additional data
Henshall: 1432  Joy o' Kanji : 1432  Key to Kanji: - 

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辛
シン   からい spicy   
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立
リツ   リュウ   たつ to stand   たてる to build   
十
ジュウ   ジッ   と    とお ten   
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一
イチ   イツ   ひとつ    ひと- one   
丨
stick   
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