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  *辣* | 辣* | *辣
hot (spicy) / pungent / (of chili pepper, raw onions etc) to sting / to burn
HSK 4
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  *辣* | 辣* | *辣
old variant of
HSK 4
hot pepper / chili
HSK 7-9
hot and numbing
HSK 7-9
scorching hot / (of a burn or other injury) painful; burning / (of one's mood) agitated; heated; intense / (of a personality) fiery; sharp-tongued / (Tw) (of a woman's figure) smoking hot
HSK 7-9
cayenne pepper / chili
Spice Girls (1990s UK pop group)
hot chick / sexy girl / abbr. LM
shrewish / pungent / forceful / bold and vigorous
lit. sour, sweet, bitter and spicy (idiom) / fig. all kinds of flavors; the joys and sorrows of life
painful heat / scorching / rude and forthright / provocative / hot / sexy
cruel / sinister / vicious
burning hot; scorching / (of food) spicy hot / (of news, topics etc) sensational; attention-grabbing / emotionally intense
spicy hot (taste) / fig. biting (criticism)
shrewd and ruthless / efficient and unscrupulous
ruthless
hot spicy soup (often sold at street stalls)
ginger gets spicier as it gets older (idiom) / the older, the wiser
very spicy
deep-fried fish cake popular in Taiwan (loanword from Japanese "tempura")
spicy sticks, a snack food similar to beef jerky but made with flour or dried beancurd instead of meat
hot red pepper / chili
(neologism c. 2016) (slang) unpleasant to look at / hard on the eyes
hot and sour shredded potato
sassy young woman or pretty girl (esp. one from China's spice belt: Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan and Yunnan)
mildly spicy
red pepper paste / chili sauce
hot / medium level of spiciness
hot and sour soup / sour and spicy soup
jalapeño
hot and sour sauce / chutney
Worcestershire sauce
horseradish / wasabi / green mustard
horseradish
if a woman likes to eat sour during pregnancy, she will have a boy; if she likes to eat spicy, she will have a girl (idiom)
to add spice; to make it spicy
lit. to eat delicious food and drink hard liquor (idiom) / fig. to live well
vicious and ruthless
Tabasco (brand)
very spicy
all-spice (Pimenta dioica) / Jamaican pepper
(slang) (Tw) coward; paper tiger; a nobody (from Taiwanese 卒仔, Tai-lo pr. [tsut-á])
Zerah (son of Judah in the Old Testament)
Gomorrah
(idiom) vicious; merciless
Sodom and Gomorrah
(coll.) insanely spicy
(Catholicism) Rahab, mother of Boaz
(coll.) hot mom
rabbi (loanword)
hot sauce / chili sauce
hot pepper
chili con carne
spicy chicken / (Internet slang) garbage (pun on 垃圾)
treacherous and murderous


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