辣 (là)
spicy; hot
How 辣 is written
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 辛 — bitter
- Traditional
- 辣
- Simplified
- 辣 (unchanged)
Common words using 辣
- 辣椒 làjiāo
- hot pepper; chili
- 火辣 huǒlà
- painful heat; scorching; rude and forthright
- 辛辣 xīnlà
- spicy hot (taste); fig. biting (criticism)
- 辣子 làzǐ
- cayenne pepper; chili
- 酸甜苦辣 suāntiánkǔlà
- sour, sweet, bitter and spicy hot; fig. the joys and sorrows of life
- 麻辣 málà
- hot and numbing
- 麻辣燙 málàtàng
- hot spicy soup (often sold in street stalls)
- 微辣 wēilà
- mildly spicy
- 心狠手辣 xīnhěnshǒulà
- vicious and merciless (idiom)
- 毒辣 dúlà
- cruel; sinister; vicious
- 潑辣 pōla
- shrewish; pungent; forceful
- 火辣辣 huǒlàlà
- painful heat; scorching; painful heat
辣 in a sentence
我不敢吃太辣的東西。
Wǒ bù gǎn chī tài là de dōngxi.
“I don't dare to eat things that are too spicy.”
How common is 辣?
辣 is the 2,415th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 98.3% of all running text.
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