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辣
辣
See also: 辢
Translingual
Han character
辣 (radical 160 辛+7, 14 strokes, cangjie input 卜十木中 (YJDL), four-corner 05496, composition ⿰辛束)
References
- KangXi: page 1251, character 12
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38646
- Dae Jaweon: page 1731, character 4
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 4040, character 1
- Unihan data for U+8FA3
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
辣 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (剌) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 莿 | *sʰeːɡs, *raːds |
| 鵣 | *raːds |
| 辣 | *raːd |
| 辢 | *raːd |
| 剌 | *raːd |
| 揧 | *raːd |
| 瘌 | *raːd |
| 楋 | *raːd |
| 蝲 | *raːd |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *raːd) : semantic 辛 + phonetic 束. The latter is an abbreviation of 剌 (OC *raːd).
Etymology
Possibly cognate with 厲 (OC *m·rads), 烈 (OC *red).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄌㄚˋ
- Wade-Giles: la4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lah
- IPA (key): /la̠⁵¹/
-
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: laat6, lat6
- Yale: laaht, laht
- Cantonese Pinyin: laat9, lat9
- IPA (key): /lɑːt̚²/, /lɐt̚²/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: loa̍h
- Tâi-lô: lua̍h
- Phofsit Daibuun: loah
- IPA (Xiamen): /luaʔ⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /luaʔ²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /luaʔ¹²¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /luaʔ⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /luaʔ⁴/
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: laq (T5)
- IPA (key): /lᴀʔ¹²/
- (Shanghainese)
- Dialectal data▼
| Variety | Location | 辣 |
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /la⁵¹/ |
| Harbin | /la⁵³/ | |
| Tianjin | /lɑ⁵³/ | |
| Jinan | /la²¹/ | |
| Qingdao | /la⁴²/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /la²⁴/ | |
| Xi'an | /la²¹/ | |
| Xining | /la⁴⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /la¹³/ | |
| Lanzhou | /la¹³/ | |
| Ürümqi | /la²¹³/ | |
| Wuhan | /na²¹³/ | |
| Chengdu | /na³¹/ | |
| Guiyang | /na²¹/ | |
| Kunming | /la̠³¹/ | |
| Nanjing | /lɑʔ⁵/ | |
| Hefei | /lɐʔ⁵/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /laʔ²/ |
| Pingyao | /lʌʔ⁵³/ | |
| Hohhot | /laʔ⁴³/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /laʔ¹/ |
| Suzhou | /laʔ³/ | |
| Hangzhou | /lɑʔ²/ | |
| Wenzhou | /la²¹³/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /la²²/ |
| Tunxi | /lɔ¹¹/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /la²⁴/ |
| Xiangtan | /nɒ²⁴/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /laʔ²/ |
| Hakka | Meixian | /lat̚⁵/ |
| Taoyuan | /lɑt̚⁵⁵/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /lat̚²/ |
| Nanning | /ʟat̚²²/ | |
| Hong Kong | /lɐt̚²/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) |
/lat̚⁵/ /luaʔ⁵/ |
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /laʔ⁵/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) |
/luɛ⁴²/ /la²⁴/ |
|
| Shantou (Min Nan) |
/la⁵/ /luaʔ⁵/ /luaʔ²/ |
|
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /lua³³/ |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 辣 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
là |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ lat › |
| Old Chinese |
/*mə.rˤat/ (~ C.rˤat ?) |
| English | spicy-hot |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 辣 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 7591 |
| Phonetic component |
剌 |
| Rime group |
月 |
| Rime subdivision |
1 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
剌 |
| Old Chinese |
/*raːd/ |
| Notes | 辢後起字，辛原在右 |
Definitions
辣
- spicy; hot; peppery; pungent; hot
- cruel; vicious
- 毒辣 ― dúlà ― sinister
- (Shanghai) to be; to be located at
Synonyms
- (at):
| Dialectal synonyms of 在 (“at, in”) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Variety | Location | Words |
| Classical Chinese | 於 | |
| Formal (Written Standard Chinese) | 在 | |
| Mandarin | Beijing | 在、挨、跟 |
| Taiwan | 在 | |
| Jinan | 在、從 | |
| Xi'an | 在 | |
| Wuhan | 在 | |
| Chengdu | 在 | |
| Yangzhou | 在 | |
| Hefei | 在 | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | 喺、響 |
| Hong Kong | 喺、響 | |
| Taishan | 到、響 | |
| Yangjiang | 在 | |
| Gan | Nanchang | 在 |
| Hakka | Meixian | 喺 |
| Miaoli (N. Sixian) | 在 | |
| Liudui (S. Sixian) | 在 | |
| Hsinchu (Hailu) | 在 | |
| Dongshi (Dabu) | 在 | |
| Zhuolan (Raoping) | 在 | |
| Yunlin (Zhao'an) | 在 | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | 在 |
| Min Bei | Jian'ou | 到 |
| Min Dong | Fuzhou | 著、在、洽 |
| Min Nan | Quanzhou | 佇 |
| Xiamen | 佇、踮 | |
| Zhangzhou | 佇 | |
| Taipei | 佇、踮 mT | |
| Kaohsiung | 佇 | |
| Tainan | 佇 | |
| Taichung | 佇 | |
| Yilan | 佇 | |
| Lukang | 佇 | |
| Sanxia | 佇 | |
| Kinmen | 佇 | |
| Magong | 佇 | |
| Hsinchu | 佇 | |
| Malaysia | 佇 | |
| Chaozhou | 在 | |
| Shantou | 在 | |
| Wu | Shanghai | 辣、辣辣、辣海 |
| Suzhou | 勒 | |
| Wenzhou | 是 | |
| Xiang | Changsha | 在 |
| Shuangfeng | 在 | |
| Note | mT - mainstream Taiwanese (no particular region identified) | |
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