辣 — Chinese character
辣
là
pepper; hot, spicy; cruel
- Pinyin
- là
- Radical
- 160 ⾟ (Bitter)
- Strokes
- 14
- Components
- 辛 束
- Formation
- pictophonetic — bitter; meaning component 辛; sound component 束
- Japanese
- 辣 as a kanji
Common words with 辣
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 辣椒 | là jiāo | hot pepper; chili |
| 辣妹 | là mèi | hot chick; sexy girl |
| 麻辣 | má là | hot and numbing |
| 火辣 | huǒ là | painful heat; scorching |
| 辛辣 | xīn là | spicy hot (taste); fig. biting (criticism) |
| 火辣辣 | huǒ là là | scorching hot; (of a burn or other injury) painful; burning |
| 心狠手辣 | xīn hěn shǒu là | (idiom) vicious; merciless |
| 辣妈 (辣媽) | là mā | (coll.) hot mom |
| 辣椒酱 (辣椒醬) | là jiāo jiàng | red pepper paste; chili sauce |
| 泼辣 (潑辣) | pō la | shrewish; pungent |
| 酸甜苦辣 | suān tián kǔ là | (lit.) sour, sweet, bitter and spicy (idiom); (fig.) all kinds of flavors; the joys and sorrows of life |
| 毒辣 | dú là | cruel; sinister |
English words written with 辣
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.