辣
Meaning
- hot (spicy)
- pungent
- (of chili pepper, raw onions etc) to sting
Example sentence
不是很辣。
It is not very spicy.
The character 辣
辣 is 辛, pungent, beside 束: the heat of a chilli. 辣椒 the chilli itself, 麻辣 the numbing heat of Sichuan cooking, 太辣了 — and in slang 辣 describes anything that stings.