辛

surname Xin

辛 = 十 + 立 : Marie Curie (xi) is preparing for the winter by making kimchi (辛) in front of the encampment ((e)n1). She is drying the vegetables by hanging them on crosses (十) and puts the finished kimchi into vases (立). She has been working very hard (辛) and in the end the filled eight (辛) vases with pungent hot (辛) kimchi.

辛

xi̅n = xi + (e)n1

(of taste) hot or pungent / hard / laborious / suffering / eighth in order / eighth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干[shi2 tian1 gan1] / letter "H" or Roman "VIII" in list "A, B, C", or "I, II, III" etc / ancient Chinese compass point: 285° / octa

辛 character breakdown

辛
- 十
  - 一
  - 丨
- 立
  - 亠
    - 一
    - 丶
  - 䒑
    - 一
    - 丷

十

shí = sh + Ø2

ten / 10

十 = 一 + 丨 : Mnemonic symbol: a holy cross. Sherlock Holmes (sh-) is investigating a very strange thing he found in the kitchen of the space station (-2): A big pyramid made of ten (十) crosses (十), which are in turn made out of flutes (一) and dinosaur bones (丨).

立

lì = li + Ø4

to stand / to set up / to establish / to lay down / to draw up / at once / immediately

立 = 䒑 + 亠 : Li Qing Zhao hides some weed in a vase in the space station's bathroom. To get the weed there, she transports it under her beret.

Characters with 辛 as component

辟

bì = bi + Ø4

king / monarch / to enlist / to repel / to avoid

辟

闢

pì = pi + Ø4

to open (a door) / to open up (for development) / to dispel / to refute / to repudiate

辟 = 尸 + 口 + 辛 : Mnemonic symbol from 辟邪, to ward of evil: a jade dragon, because this is what you get if you google image search 辟邪. Pocahontas (pi) stored some delicious kimchi (辛) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4), and a ghost (尸) is trying to eat it all in one gulp. Pocahontas is prepared though and uses a jade dragon (辟) to fend off (辟) the ghost. She does throw a mandarin (口) to the desperate ghost though.

辟

pì = pi + Ø4

law / variant of 闢|辟[pi4]

辡

Character component without intrinsic meaning

辡 = 辛 + 辛 : Two vases full of kimchi.

梓

zǐ = z + Ø3

Catalpa kaempferi / printing blocks

莘

she̅n = sh + (e)n1

long / numerous