See also:
U+8FA3, 辣
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8FA3

[U+8FA2]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+8FA4]

Translingual edit

Han character edit

(Kangxi radical 160, +7, 14 strokes, cangjie input 卜十木中 (YJDL), four-corner 05496, composition )

Derived characters edit

References edit

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1251, character 12
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38646
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1731, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4040, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+8FA3

Chinese edit

simp. and trad.
 
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Glyph origin edit

Phono-semantic compound (形聲形声, OC *raːd): semantic + phonetic . The latter is an abbreviation of (OC *raːd).

Etymology 1 edit

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

Pronunciation edit


Note:
  • la̍t - literary;
  • loa̍h - vernacular (“spicy; cruel (Mainland China)”).
  • Wu
  • Xiang

    • Dialectal data
    Variety Location
    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 (Hokkien) /lat̚⁵/
    /luaʔ⁵/
    Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /laʔ⁵/
    Jian'ou (Northern Min) /luɛ⁴²/
    /la²⁴/
    Shantou (Teochew) /la⁵/
    /luaʔ⁵/
    /luaʔ²/
    Haikou (Hainanese) /lua³³/

    BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
    Character
    Reading # 1/1
    Modern
    Beijing
    (Pinyin)
    Middle
    Chinese
    ‹ lat ›
    Old
    Chinese
    /*mə.rˁat/ (~ C.rˁat ?)
    English spicy-hot

    Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

    * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
    * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
    * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
    * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

    * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
    Zhengzhang system (2003)
    Character
    Reading # 1/1
    No. 7591
    Phonetic
    component
    Rime
    group
    Rime
    subdivision
    1
    Corresponding
    MC rime
    Old
    Chinese
    /*raːd/
    Notes

    Definitions edit

    1. spicy; hot; peppery; pungent; hot
        ―  bù huān  ―  I don't find food that isn't spicy tasty.
        ―  Wǒ bù chī .  ―  I don't eat spicy food.
    2. to be spicy; to be hot; to burn
    3. cruel; vicious
        ―    ―  sinister
    4. a surname: La

    Synonyms edit

    • (spicy):
    • (cruel):

    Compounds edit

    Etymology 2 edit

    simp. and trad.
    alternative forms



    From (MC dzojX) (Dai, 2004) (compare > ) or (MC loj). Cognate with Suzhounese .

    Pronunciation edit


    Definitions edit

    (Northern Wu)

    1. to be at; to be located at
    2. at; in
    3. be ...-ing; in the middle of doing something (indicating an action in progress)

    Synonyms edit

    Compounds edit

    Etymology 3 edit

    For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“(of hot objects) to burn; to scald; to sear; very hot; scalding”).
    (This character is a variant form of ).

    Compounds edit

    Japanese edit

    Kanji edit

    (common “Jōyō” kanji)

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    Readings edit

    Compounds edit

    Korean edit

    Hanja edit

    (eumhun 매울 (mae'ul ral), South Korea 매울 (mae'ul nal))

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    Vietnamese edit

    Han character edit

    : Hán Việt readings: lạt[1][2][3]
    : Nôm readings: lượt, lát[2], lướt[2], nhạt[2], nhợt[2]

    1. spicy, scathing, harsh

    References edit