辛, a pictographic character of a knife, serves as semantic component to form characters. Characters formed by the semantic component 辛 have to do with crime, criminal law, spicy things, etc such as 辨, 辞, 辣, 辟, 辫, 辜, 辠, etc.
Characters formed by the semantic component 辛
| 笔划 | 汉字 | 拼音 | 笔划 | 汉字 | 拼音 |
| 7 | 辛 | xīn | 12 | 辜 | gū |
| 12 | 辝 | cí | 13 | 辟 | bì,pì |
| 13 | 辞 | cí | 13 | 辠 | zuì |
| 14 | 辣 | là | 14 | 辢 | là |
| 14 | 辡 | biàn | 15 | 辤 | cí |
| 16 | 辨 | biàn | 16 | 辩 | biàn |
| 16 | 辦 | bàn | 16 | 辧 | biàn |
| 16 | 辥 | xuē | 17 | 辫 | biàn |
| 17 | 辪 | xuē | 18 | 辬 | bān |
| 19 | 辭 | cí | 20 | 辮 | biàn |
| 21 | 辯 | biàn |