Chinese symbol for “chili”
辣椒
là jiāo
hot pepper; chili
The closest CC-CEDICT match for chili is 辣椒 (là jiāo), defined as: hot pepper; chili.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “chili”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 辣子 | là zi | cayenne pepper; chili |
| 红辣椒 (紅辣椒) | hóng là jiāo | hot red pepper; chili |
| 番椒 | fān jiāo | hot pepper; chili |
| 牛角椒 | niú jiǎo jiāo | Cayenne pepper; red pepper |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 辣椒.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 胡椒 | hú jiāo | pepper |
| 花椒 | huā jiāo | Sichuan pepper; Chinese prickly ash |
| 青椒 | qīng jiāo | Capsicum annuum; green pepper |
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.