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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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  *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]
Bing Xin (1900-1999), female poet and children's writer
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  *昕* | 昕* | *昕
dawn
Red Eyebrows, rebel group involved in the overthrow of the Xin dynasty 新朝
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  *欣* | 欣* | *欣
happy
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  *伈* | 伈* | *伈
nervous / fearful
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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
Xin'an county in Luoyang 洛陽|洛阳, Henan
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  *薪* | 薪* | *薪
(literary) firewood; fuel / (bound form) salary
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  *鑫* | 鑫* | *鑫
(used in names of people and shops, symbolizing prosperity)
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  *鋅* | 鋅* | *鋅
zinc (chemistry)
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  *馨* | 馨* | *馨
fragrant
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  *歆* | 歆* | *歆
pleased / moved
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  *鐔* | 鐔* | *鐔
guard (on a sword handle) / pommel (on a sword handle) / dagger / Taiwan pr. [tan2]
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  *忻* | 忻* | *忻
happy
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  *廞* | 廞* | *廞
(literary) to arrange in ordered fashion / also pr. [qin1]
Qiandao Lake in Zhejiang, aka Xin'an River Reservoir, created as part of a large hydroelectric project in 1959
Xin'an county in Luoyang 洛陽|洛阳, Henan
Xin county in Xinyang 信陽|信阳, Henan
the Xin dynasty (8-23 AD) of Wang Mang 王莽, forming the interregnum between the former and later Han
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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  *炘* | 炘* | *炘
mid-day glare / heat
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
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
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  *釁* | 釁* | *釁
quarrel / dispute / a blood sacrifice (arch.)
Daji (c. 11th century BC), concubine of the last Shang dynasty king Zhou Xin 紂辛|纣辛
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  *焮* | 焮* | *焮
heat / flame / inflammation
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  *莘* | 莘* | *莘
Asarum / Wild ginger / also 細辛|细辛
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  *忄* | 忄* | *忄
Kangxi radical 61 () as a vertical side element
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  *囟* | 囟* | *囟
fontanel (gap between the bones of an infant's skull)
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  *舋* | 舋* | *舋
variant of 釁|衅 / quarrel / dispute / a blood sacrifice (arch.)
Zhou Xin (c. 11th century BC), last king of the Shang dynasty
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  *訢* | 訢* | *訢
pleased / delighted / happy / variant of
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  *伩* | 伩* | *伩
variant of (originally meant as part of the second round of simplified Chinese characters)
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.
Huang Xin, character in The Water Margin
Han Xin (-196 BC), famous general of first Han emperor Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦
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  *㐰* | 㐰* | *㐰
old variant of
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
Emperor Xin, last ruler of Shang (11th Century BC), famous as a tyrant


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