辣
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hot (spicy); pungent; (of chili pepper, raw onions etc) to sting; to burn
- HSK 3.0
- Level 4
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 辛 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 辣
- Common rank
- #1,282
- Unicode
- U+8FA3
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Formation & memory
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Words with 辣
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 心毒手辣 | vicious and ruthless | |
| 酸儿辣女 | if a woman likes to eat sour during pregnancy, she will have a boy; if she likes to eat sp… | |
| 小米辣 | xiaomila, a hot chili pepper cultivar (Capsicum frutescens) | |
| 辣子鸡 | laziji, spicy dish of chicken cubes stir-fried with chili peppers | |
| 辣白菜 | spicy pickled cabbage; kimchi | |
| 酸辣土豆丝 | hot and sour shredded potato | |
| 辣哈布 | (Catholicism) Rahab, mother of Boaz | |
| 辣子 | cayenne pepper; chili | |
| 中辣 | hot; medium level of spiciness | |
| 酸辣粉 | hot and sour noodles (Sichuan-origin dish made with starch-based noodles) | |
| 老辣 | shrewd and ruthless; efficient and unscrupulous | |
| 重辣 | very spicy | |
| 索多玛与哈摩辣 | Sodom and Gomorrah | |
| 火辣 | painful heat; scorching; rude and forthright; provocative; hot; sexy | |
| 变态辣 | (coll.) insanely spicy (the highest level of spiciness on a menu) | |
| 加辣 | to add spice; to make it spicy | |
| 阴险毒辣 | treacherous and murderous | |
| 哈摩辣 | Gomorrah | |
| 解辣 | to relieve the burning sensation of spicy food | |
| 酸辣汤 | hot and sour soup; sour and spicy soup |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 束 — compare how they read.