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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *辣* | 辣* | *辣
hot (spicy) / pungent / (of chili pepper, raw onions etc) to sting / to burn
HSK 4
lit. sour, sweet, bitter and spicy (idiom) / fig. all kinds of flavors; the joys and sorrows of life
HSK 5
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
shrewish / pungent / forceful / bold and vigorous
hot and sour sauce / chutney
hot pepper / chili
HSK 7-9
hot / medium level of spiciness
(idiom) vicious; merciless
ruthless
treacherous and murderous
capsaicin
to add spice; to make it spicy
lit. to eat delicious food and drink hard liquor (idiom) / fig. to live well
horseradish / wasabi / green mustard
painful heat / scorching / rude and forthright / provocative / hot / sexy
burning hot; scorching / (of food) spicy hot / (of news, topics etc) sensational; attention-grabbing / emotionally intense
(coll.) hot mom
deep-fried fish cake popular in Taiwan (loanword from Japanese "tempura")
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 relieve the burning sensation of spicy food
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *辣* | 辣* | *辣
old variant of
HSK 4
spicy chicken / (Internet slang) garbage (pun on 垃圾)
mildly spicy
ginger gets spicier as it gets older (idiom) / the older, the wiser
Worcestershire sauce
hot and sour shredded potato
sassy young woman or pretty girl (esp. one from China's spice belt: Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan and Yunnan)
very spicy
shrewd and ruthless / efficient and unscrupulous
hot and numbing
HSK 7-9
hot spicy soup (often sold at street stalls)
(Catholicism) Rahab, mother of Boaz
very spicy
xiaomila, a hot chili pepper cultivar (Capsicum frutescens)
cruel / sinister / vicious
red pepper paste / chili sauce
Gomorrah
spicy hot (taste) / fig. biting (criticism)
spicy sticks, a snack food similar to beef jerky but made with flour or dried beancurd instead of meat
vicious and ruthless
hot red pepper / chili
jalapeño
(coll.) insanely spicy (the highest level of spiciness on a menu)
hot and sour soup / sour and spicy soup
hot and sour noodles (Sichuan-origin dish made with starch-based noodles)
hot pepper
all-spice (Pimenta dioica) / Jamaican pepper
(slang) (Tw) coward; paper tiger; a nobody (from Taiwanese 卒仔, Tai-lo pr. [tsut-á])
laziji, spicy dish of chicken cubes stir-fried with chili peppers
Spice Girls (1990s UK pop group)
hot chick / sexy girl / abbr. LM
horseradish
Tabasco (brand)
spicy pickled cabbage; kimchi
(loanword) rabbi
hot sauce / chili sauce
chili con carne
Zerah (son of Judah in the Old Testament)
cayenne pepper / chili
(neologism c. 2016) (slang) unpleasant to look at / hard on the eyes
Sodom and Gomorrah


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