Amazing Chinese Characters (733）Pungent - 辛

The shell bone script of character Pungent is

which is tongue of human, the top short line is pungent food people want to taste, which is strong, causing suffering on tongue which is stuck out of month. The character means spicy in most of time, but bitter sometimes. 

The bronze script of character Pungent is

The food on tongue disappeared. 

The small seal script of character Pungent is

 

The food on tongue is back, the tongue is more complex than that of shell bone script.

The clerical script of character Pungent is

Similar to small seal script, but the big curve becomes straight line, the short line on the top, and the small curve become dots.

The Pinyin of the character is Xin1.