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辣
là HSK4

spicy

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents

Phonosemantic compound. 辛 represents the meaning and a remnant of 剌 represents the sound.

Components

辛
辛 Meaning component
xīn laborious
剌
剌 SoundRemnant component
lá, là cut, slash

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartlatmə.rˤat
(~ C.rˤat ?)
spicy-hot

Sources

Character origin
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Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart