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辣
là
1. hot (spicy)
2. pungent
HSK 4 Very Common • Top 4% ✏️ 14 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

辣
là
pepper; hot, spicy; cruel
HSK 4 14 丶

Compound Words (20)

中辣
zhōnglà
hot
俗辣
súlà
(Taiwan slang) coward
微辣
wēilà
mildly spicy
恶辣
èlà
ruthless
极辣
jílà
very spicy
毒辣
dúlà
cruel
泼辣
pōla
shrewish
火辣
huǒlà
painful heat
老辣
lǎolà
shrewd and ruthless
辛辣
xīnlà
spicy hot (taste)
辣妹
Làmèi
Spice Girls (1990s UK pop group)
辣妹
làmèi
hot chick
辣子
làzi
cayenne pepper
辣彼
làbǐ
rabbi (loanword)
辣根
làgēn
horseradish
辣椒
làjiāo
hot pepper
HSK 5
辣汁
làzhī
hot sauce
重辣
zhònglà
very spicy
麻辣
málà
hot and numbing
则辣黑
Zélàhēi
Zerah (name)

Alternate Entries

辣
là
old variant of [[辣<là>]]
HSK 4

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
4
Character Frequency Rank
2,419
Word Frequency Rank
3,316 of 84,292

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