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  *新* | 新* | *新
new / newly / meso- (chemistry)
HSK 1
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  *信* | 信* | *信
letter / mail / CL: / to trust / to believe / to profess faith in / truthful / confidence / trust / at will / at random
HSK 2
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  *心* | 心* | *心
heart / mind / intention / center / core / CL: 顆|颗, 個|个
HSK 3
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  *新* | 新* | *新
abbr. for Xinjiang 新疆 / abbr. for Singapore 新加坡 / surname Xin
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  *鑫* | 鑫* | *鑫
(used in names of people and shops, symbolizing prosperity)
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  *芯* | 芯* | *芯
(bound form) the pith of the rush plant (used as a lampwick)
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  *芯* | 芯* | *芯
used in 芯子 / Taiwan pr. [xin1]
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  *欣* | 欣* | *欣
happy
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  *忄* | 忄* | *忄
Kangxi radical 61 () as a vertical side element
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  *馨* | 馨* | *馨
fragrant
Xin'an county in Luoyang 洛陽|洛阳, Henan
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  *辛* | 辛* | *辛
surname Xin
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  *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
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *歆* | 歆* | *歆
pleased / moved
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  *薪* | 薪* | *薪
(literary) firewood; fuel / (bound form) salary
Daji (c. 11th century BC), concubine of the last Shang dynasty king Zhou Xin 紂辛|纣辛
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  *莘* | 莘* | *莘
Asarum / Wild ginger / also 細辛|细辛
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  *忻* | 忻* | *忻
happy
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  *锌* | 锌* | *锌
zinc (chemistry)
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  *昕* | 昕* | *昕
dawn
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  *囟* | 囟* | *囟
fontanel (gap between the bones of an infant's skull)
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  *炘* | 炘* | *炘
mid-day glare / heat
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  *衅* | 衅* | *衅
quarrel / dispute / a blood sacrifice (arch.)
Xin county in Xinyang 信陽|信阳, Henan
Bing Xin (1900-1999), female poet and children's writer
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  *伈* | 伈* | *伈
nervous / fearful
lit. raised up by Xiao He, cast down by Xiao He (idiom), alluding to Han Xin 韓信|韩信 being made Grand General 大將軍|大将军 / fig. a situation where one's success and failure are both due to the same factor
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  *镡* | 镡* | *镡
guard (on a sword handle) / pommel (on a sword handle) / dagger / Taiwan pr. [tan2]
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  *焮* | 焮* | *焮
heat / flame / inflammation
Han Xin (-196 BC), famous general of first Han emperor Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦
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  *伩* | 伩* | *伩
variant of (originally meant as part of the second round of simplified Chinese characters)
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  *舋* | 舋* | *舋
variant of 釁|衅 / quarrel / dispute / a blood sacrifice (arch.)
Huang Xin, character in The Water Margin
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *䜣* | 䜣* | *䜣
pleased / delighted / happy / variant of
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  *㐰* | 㐰* | *㐰
old variant of
Yu Xin (513-581), poet from Liang of the Southern dynasties 南朝梁朝 and author of Lament for the South 哀江南賦|哀江南赋
Red Eyebrows, rebel group involved in the overthrow of the Xin dynasty 新朝
Zhou Xin (c. 11th century BC), last king of the Shang dynasty
lit. cut sleeve (idiom); fig. euphemism for homosexuality, originating from History of Western Han 漢書|汉书: emperor Han Aidi (real name Liu Xin) was in bed with his lover Dong Xian, and had to attend a court audience that morning. Not wishing to awaken Dong Xian, who was sleeping with his head resting on the emperor's long robe sleeve, Aidi used a knife to cut off the lower half of his sleeve.
Qiandao Lake in Zhejiang, aka Xin'an River Reservoir, created as part of a large hydroelectric project in 1959
the Xin dynasty (8-23 AD) of Wang Mang 王莽, forming the interregnum between the former and later Han
Lament for the South, long poem in Fu style by Yu Xin 庾信 mourning the passing of Liang of the Southern dynasties 南朝梁朝
Emperor Xin, last ruler of Shang (11th Century BC), famous as a tyrant
(literary) to arrange in ordered fashion / also pr. [qin1]
Xin'an county in Luoyang 洛陽|洛阳, Henan
lit. the humiliation of having to crawl between the legs of one's adversary (as Han Xin 韓信|韩信 supposedly did rather than engage in a sword fight) (idiom) / fig. (endure) utter humiliation


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