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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
- hot (spicy)
- pungent
- (of chili pepper, raw onions etc) to sting
- to burn
- old variant of 辣[la4]

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
4 4 1,615 3,967 1,550

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Bitter

Other Words Containing

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
4 4 1,615 3,967 1,550
辣椒 5 8 6,436 6,567 3,204
辣椒酱 - - 14,444 - -
火辣辣 - 9 21,428 34,111 26,417
心狠手辣 - - 23,146 39,288 34,413
泼辣 - - 29,737 34,650 25,111
辛辣 - - 29,770 22,168 13,521
毒辣 - - 32,096 34,106 44,678
麻辣 - 9 35,432 10,028 3,952
酸甜苦辣 - 5 38,642 26,090 14,133
热辣辣 - - 44,719 57,197 31,446
辣酱油 - - 45,613 - -
阴险毒辣 - - 53,645 - -
麻辣烫 - - 77,781 - -
酸辣汤 - - 89,227 76,184 35,793
老辣 - - 91,704 55,665 43,635