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HSK
exhausting / hard / tough / arduous / to work hard / to go to a lot of trouble / hardship(s)
HSK 5
hardworking; industrious
HSK 7-9
pungent (taste) / bitter / fig. sad / miserable
HSK 7-9
hardships / arduous / difficult
HSK 7-9
eight year H8 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1991 or 2051
syndicate (loanword)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *辛* | 辛* | *辛
surname Xin
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *辛* | 辛* | *辛
(of taste) hot or pungent / hard / laborious / suffering / eighth in order / eighth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干 / letter "H" or Roman "VIII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 285° / octa
forty-eighth year H12 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1971 or 2031 / cf 辛亥革命, Xinhai Revolution of 1911
Xinji, county-level city in Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄, Hebei
(name) Singh
Simpson (name)
Henry Kissinger (1923-2023), US academic and politician, Secretary of State 1973-1977
thirty-eighth year H2 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1961 or 2021 / cf 辛丑條約|辛丑条约, Protocol of Beijing of 1901 ending the 8-nation intervention after the Boxer uprising
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-), US actor and politician, governor of California 2003-2011
laborious
painstakingly / with great trouble
eighteenth year H6 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2001 or 2061
to suffer untold hardships (idiom); trials and tribulations / with difficulty / after some effort
to make nothing of hardships
spicy hot (taste) / fig. biting (criticism)
to suffer every possible torment (idiom); bitter hardship / to bear one's cross
misery
Auschwitz (concentration camp)
bitter hardship / to bear one's cross
The Simpsons (US TV series)
Lansing, capital of Michigan
Cincinnati, Ohio
Xinhai Revolution (1911), which ended the Qing Dynasty
Chea Sim, president of Cambodian National Assembly
very pungent and spicy vegetable dishes (a common Buddhist term)
Maxine (name)
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-), US actor and politician, governor of California 2003-2011
Zhou Xin (c. 11th century BC), last king of the Shang dynasty
Jean Racine (1639-1699), French dramatist
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-), US actor and politician, governor of California 2003-2011 / also written 阿諾德·施瓦辛格|阿诺德·施瓦辛格
one of the five legendary emperors, also called 嚳|喾
Emperor Xin, last ruler of Shang (11th Century BC), famous as a tyrant
Wisconsin
kimchi (loanword)
behind-the-scenes story / details known only to insiders
to make industrious and diligent efforts (idiom)
dioxin, carcinogenic heterocyclic hydrocarbon (esp. Taiwan usage)
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-), Austrian-born American bodybuilder, actor and politician
(adjective) non-Buddhist vegetarian (allowing strong-smelling vegetables like garlic and onions)
(idiom) to have suffered all kinds of hardships
Lixin, a county in Bozhou 亳州, Anhui
(loanword) pentazocine (a synthetic opioid analgesic)
Funcinpec (royalist Cambodian political party)
Auschwitz concentration camp
Auschwitz (concentration camp)
Manchurian wild ginger (family Asarum)
San Jacinto
benactyzine
Helsinki (Swedish Helsingfors), capital of Finland
Boxer Protocol of 1901 signed in Beijing, ending the Eight-power Allied Force intervention after the Boxer uprising
simvastatin
twenty-eighth year H4 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 2011 or 2071
Zimbabwe (Tw)
Thimphu, capital of Bhutan (Tw)
octane rating
Shin Bet (Israel national security service)
fifty-eighth year H10 of the 60 year cycle, e.g. 1981 or 2041
Xinji, county-level city in Shijiazhuang 石家莊|石家庄, Hebei


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