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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
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
shrewish / pungent / forceful / bold and vigorous
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
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")
mildly spicy
hot / medium level of spiciness
horseradish / wasabi / green mustard
to add spice; to make it spicy
lit. to eat delicious food and drink hard liquor (idiom) / fig. to live well
vicious and ruthless
very spicy
(slang) (Tw) coward; paper tiger; a nobody (from Taiwanese 卒仔, Tai-lo pr. [tsut-á])
Gomorrah
(idiom) vicious; merciless
Sodom and Gomorrah
(coll.) insanely spicy
treacherous and murderous


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