The shell bone script of character Pungent is
which is tongue of human, the top short line is called indicative point which is to locate the location the character meaning focuses on, here is the pungent food people on the tongue, which is strong, causing suffering on tongue. The character means spicy taste in most of time, but bitter sometimes.
The bronze script of character Pungent is
The indicative point on tongue disappeared, just the tongue left, which causes confusion, some dictionary wrongly defined it as a dagger.
The small seal script of character Pungent is
The indicative point (the pungent 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.
We say ”辛苦“ offer, 辛 is pungent, 苦 is bitter. But 辛苦 is used to describe tough, difficult, suffering life, not taste any more.
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