Chinese

辣

là
spicy; hot; peppery; pungent; hot
  • Phono-semantic compound 形聲
  • HSK 4
  • TOCFL 3
  • radical 辛
  • 14 strokes

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Origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *raːd): semantic 辛 + abbreviated phonetic 束 (OC *raːd).

Possibly cognate with 厲 (OC *m·rads), 烈 (OC *red).

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Lineage

  • meaningChinese辛 “spicy; hot; pungent”
  • soundChinese剌 “to contradict; to violate”
    • ideaChinese禾 “grain; cereal”
    • ideaChinese口 “mouth, especially the lips and internal mouth cavity (Classifier: 把 c)”
    • ideaChinese刀 “knife; blade (Classifier: 把 m c g h j mb md w x; 張／张 c h; 叢／丛 mn; 支 mn mn-t)”

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