là
spicy
Phonosemantic compound. 辛 represents the meaning and a remnant of 剌 represents the sound.
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
pungent | ||
chili | ||
hot and numbing | ||
spicy hot (taste) | ||
sour, sweet, bitter and spicy hot |
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*mə.rˤat (~ C.rˤat ?) | lat | là | spicy-hot |
HSK level 4
Appears in 18.3085% of movies
1420th most common character in movies
2420th most common character in books
Strokes | 14 |
Unicode | U+8FA3 |