spicy, bitter, hot, acrid

Radicals

Common words

• 辛い【からい】
  spicy, hot, salty, harsh (criticism), severe (punishment), strict, painful, bitter, difficult, tough
• 辛い【つらい】
  painful, bitter, heart-breaking, difficult (emotionally), tough, difficult, hard (usu. of situations), cruel, harsh, cold
• 辛い【づらい】
  difficult to ..., hard to ...
• 辛口【からくち】
  dry taste (e.g. sake, wine), a liking for sake, one who likes sake, salty (taste), harsh, scathing
• 辛うじて【かろうじて】
  barely, narrowly, only just, with difficulty
• 香辛料【こうしんりょう】
  spice, spices, condiment
• 辛酸【しんさん】
  hardships, privation
• 辛抱強い【しんぼうづよい】
  patient, persevering
• 辛苦【しんく】
  hardship, toil, trouble
• 塩辛【しおから】
  shiokara, paste made from salted fermented seafood (squid, fish entrails, etc.)
• 辛勝【しんしょう】
  narrow victory
• 塩辛い【しおからい】
  salty (taste), briny
• 甘辛【あまから】
  sweetness and saltiness, salted and sweetened taste
• 辛抱【しんぼう】
  patience, endurance, perseverance
• 唐辛子【とうがらし】
  capsicum (Capsicum annuum, esp. the cultivated chili peppers), chili pepper (chile, chilli), cayenne, red pepper, shichimi pepper