là
spicy
Phonosemantic compound. 辛 represents the meaning and a remnant of 剌 represents the sound.
Most common words with 辣
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
pungent | ||
chili | ||
hot and numbing | ||
spicy hot (taste) | ||
sour, sweet, bitter and spicy hot |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mə.rˤat (~ C.rˤat ?) | lat | là | spicy-hot |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 18.3085% of movies
1420th most common character in movies
2420th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+8FA3 |
Sources
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