# 辛 spicy / painful

立 (stand up) + 十 (ten)
★★★☆☆
7 strokes
JERK STRONG

## Onyomi

SHIN | When you eat the spicy peppers, your upper lip gets SHINY with sweat.

## Mnemonic

| This spicy sauce is hotter than ten peppers standing end to end.

## Kunyomi

から*い | spicy hot, not fresh-from-the-oven hot (BOOBOO) ★★★☆☆
つら＊い | something is tremendously difficult or painful to do - (the life of a coal miner is hard!). Not only does つらい have nothing to do with からい, but they both LOOK the same: 辛い、辛い. - so there's no way to tell which is which! (although usually つらい is written in hiragana, and からい is written with kanji ) 1/2 KANA ★★★☆☆

## Jukugo

香辛料(こうしんりょう) | spices ★☆☆☆☆ 香 (good smell) + 辛 (spicy / painful) + 料 (ingredients / fees) = 香辛料 (spices) spices - not just hot ones. This is the only word you'll ever need the onyomi for. Sorry.

## Lookalikes

| Meaning | Hint | Radical
--- | --- | --- | ---
辛 | spicy / painful | NO TEN |
幸 | luck, happiness | TEN | 十
宰 | manager | CROWN |

Luck has a TEN on top, spicy does NOT. So you can say,

Good luck will bring you TEN TIMES AS MUCH happiness as good spices .

The man with the CROWN manages the country.

## Used In

- 幸
- 宰
- 辞

## Synonyms

spicy 辛い 辛口