辛

Food, cooking

salted cod roe flavored with red pepper

pungent taste

kobus magnolia; Magnolia praecocissima; Magnolia kobus

Metal Sheep (8th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1931, 1991, 2051)

Food, cooking

miso mixed with mustard

Metal Snake (18th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1941, 2001, 2061)

high-salt miso; salty miso

spicy miso

Metal Boar (48th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1911, 1971, 2031)

trials and tribulations; adversities; suffering hardships and troubles

barely; narrowly; with difficulty

Metal Rooster (58th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1921, 1981, 2041)

Metal Rabbit (28th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1951, 2011, 2071)

Metal Ox (38th term of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1961, 2021, 2081)

からもの only; Usu. 辛いもの, etc.

spicy food

Archaic; Female; Secret language of court ladies

daikon

Idiomatic expression

to undergo many hardships; to taste the bitters of life

hardships and joys; tasting the sweets and bitters of life; being well-versed in the ways of the world (having seen much of life)

pain; bitterness

harshly; bitterly; cruelly; badly

Product name

Shin Ramyun (Korean brand of instant noodles)

Historical term

Xinhai Revolution (of China; 1911)

Rare term

salt; (strong) saltiness

Archaic

salt water; seawater

spice; spices; condiment

difficult to speak about

for dear life; barely escaping alive