HSK 5 · Food

辣椒 làjiāo “chilli” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 辣椒 means

  1. chilli
  2. hot pepper
  3. chili

How to say 辣椒

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale辣là4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale椒jiāo1st tone, high and level

辣椒 in a sentence

  1. 您吃不吃辣椒？

    Nín chī bu chī làjiāo?

    Do you eat chilli?

    Sentence #426442 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 辣椒是我最喜欢的香料之一。

    Làjiāo shì wǒ zuì xǐhuan de xiāngliào zhī yī.

    Chilli is one of my favourite spices.

    Sentence #13878209 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 辣椒 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 辣 (là) with each of its parts in a different colour
辣làhot
  • 辛bitter · xīnMeaning part
  • 束to bind · shùSound part

辛 hints at the meaning (bitter); 束 (shù) hints at the sound. Compare it with là.

The character 椒 (jiāo) with each of its parts in a different colour
椒jiāopepper
  • 木tree · mùMeaning part
  • 叔uncle · shūSound part

木 hints at the meaning (tree); 叔 (shū) hints at the sound. Compare it with jiāo.

How to write 辣椒

辣 14 strokes · 椒 12 strokes

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辣椒 (làjiāo) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 辣椒 (làjiāo). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 辣椒

Words with 辣

辣là · spicy

More words: Food & Dining

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FAQs

辣椒 (làjiāo) means “chilli” or “hot pepper”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it làjiāo: là with a 4th tone, then jiāo with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 辣椒 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type lajiao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 辣椒 from the suggestions. Typing lajiao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
辣椒 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.