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Word and Radical Components of 辣椒

The Chinese word 辣椒 is analysed below into its constituent words and the words into radicals. By seeing the breakdown of the word in this way you can more easily learn and recognise the word.


Component Pinyin Meanings
辣椒 1. chili
2. chili pepper

辣椒 ⇨ 辣 + 椒
Component Pinyin Meanings
辣 là 1. spicy; hot; peppery; pungent; hot
     無 辣 不 歡 - I don't find food that isn't spicy tasty.
     我 不 吃 辣。 - I don't eat spicy food.
2. to be spicy; to be hot; to burn
3. cruel; vicious
     毒辣 - sinister
     La
4. to be at; to be located at
5. at; in
6. be ...-ing; in the middle of doing something (indicating an action in progress)
7. Variant of 焫
椒 jiāo 1. (originally) Sichuan pepper
2. any similar plants and spices, such as pepper and chili
3. summit

辣 ⇨ 辛 + 束
Component Pinyin Meanings
辛 xīn 1. spicy; hot; pungent
     辛辣 - spicy -
2. hard; laborious; toilsome
     辛苦 - laborious -
3. sorrowful; miserable; hard
     辛酸 - bitter -
     辛 棄-疾 - (Xin Qiji, Xin Qiji - (Chinese poet during the Southern Song dynasty))
xīn 4. eighth of the ten heavenly stems
5. (in a list) eighth; number 8; VIII
6. (organic chemistry) octa-
xīn 7. (mathematics, attributive) symplectic
xīn 8. (zh-used2, t)
束 shù, sùeijing dialect 1. to bind; to tie up
     束縛 - to bind; to tie up
2. (now, in compounds) to control; to restrain
     拘束 - restraint; inhibited; constraint
3. (now, in compounds) end
     結束 - end
4. bunch; bundle; bale
     光束 - light beam
5. (geometry) pencil (family of geometric objects with a common property)
     平面-束 - pencil of planes
     一 束 玫瑰 - a bouquet of roses

椒 ⇨ 木 + 叔
Component Pinyin Meanings
木 mù 1. tree; woody plant
     Synonyms: 樹
     樹木 - tree
     灌木 - shrub
     木芍藥 - tree peony
2. wood; timber
     木頭tou - log
3. wooden
     這 張 桌子 是 木 的。 - This table is made of wood
4. simple; plain; slow; emotionless; wooden
     木訥 - plain spoken, slow and inarticulate
     棺木 - coffin
     就木 - to die (to enter one's coffin)
5. (Mandarin, neologism, slang) (eye dialect of zh, 沒)
     有木有 - innit, damn right
6. numb
     麻木 - numb, insensitive
     她 手指 凍 木 了。 - Her fingers were numb with cold.
叔 叔 1. paternal uncle (father's younger brother)
2. brother-in-law (husband's younger brother)
3. uncle (a term of address for a man around one's father's age or slightly younger)
4. (historical) shu, (ngd, a high rank in the early Zhou aristocracy)
     (ux, zh, 三監是管叔鮮、蔡叔度和霍叔處。, The Three Guards were Guanshu Xian, Caishu Du, and Huoshu Chu.)
叔 5. (obsolete) to gather; to harvest

束 ⇨ 木 + 口
Component Pinyin Meanings
木 mù 1. tree; woody plant
     Synonyms: 樹
     樹木 - tree
     灌木 - shrub
     木芍藥 - tree peony
2. wood; timber
     木頭tou - log
3. wooden
     這 張 桌子 是 木 的。 - This table is made of wood
4. simple; plain; slow; emotionless; wooden
     木訥 - plain spoken, slow and inarticulate
     棺木 - coffin
     就木 - to die (to enter one's coffin)
5. (Mandarin, neologism, slang) (eye dialect of zh, 沒)
     有木有 - innit, damn right
6. numb
     麻木 - numb, insensitive
     她 手指 凍 木 了。 - Her fingers were numb with cold.
口 kǒu 1. (anatomy) mouth, especially the lips and internal mouth cavity
     漱 漱 你 的 口。 (Shù shù nǐ de kǒu.) - Rinse your mouth out.
     這 話 出自 你 的 口，聽來 令人 奇怪。 (Zhè huà chūzì nǐ de kǒu, tīnglái lìngrén qíguài.) - This sounds strange in your mouth.
2. entrance; opening; mouth (of an object)
     入口 (rùkǒu) - entrance
     出口 (chūkǒu) - exit
     門口 (ménkǒu) - doorway
3. gateway
     張家口 (Zhāngjiākǒu) - Zhangjiakou
     口北 (Kǒuběi) - the area beyond the Great Wall
     口蘑 (kǒumó) - St. George's mushroom (Calocybe gambosa)
4. hole; cut
     口子zi (kǒuzi) - hole
     傷口 (shāngkǒu) - wound
5. port
     電腦 端口 (shāngkǒu) - computer port
     Csēi口 (sēikǒu) - USB-C port
6. perimeter
     人口 (rénkǒu) - population
     戶口 (hùkǒu) - hukou
7. government organ; department
     三 口 之 家 (sān kǒu zhī jiā) - a family of three
     我 可以 吃 一 口 嗎？ (Wǒ kěyǐ chī yī kǒu ma?) - Can I have a bite?
8. (neologism, slang) to fellate
9. Variant of 名

叔 ⇨ 尗 + 又
Component Pinyin Meanings
尗 1. Variant of 菽
2. Variant of 叔
又 yòu 1. again; once more
     又 下雨 了！ - It's raining again!
     想 了 又 想 - to think and think; to deeply think about
     一次 又 一次 的 失敗 - failure after failure
2. (Used to express the coexistence of several conditions or qualities); both ... and ...
     聰明 又 漂亮liang - smart and pretty
     我 又 餓 又 渴。 - I am hungry and thirsty.
     我 又 想 去，又 不 想 去，該 怎麼 辦？ - I want to go, but I also don't want to go, what should I do?
3. also; in addition
     達·芬-奇 是 科學家，又 是 藝術家。 - Leonardo da Vinci was a scientist also an artist.
4. (Used between a whole number and a fraction)
     四 小時 又 十 分鐘 - four hours and ten minutes
     二 又 三 分 之 一 - two and a third
5. but; on the other hand
6. (Used in negative statements and rhetorical questions for emphasis)
     這樣 做 對 你 又 有 什麼 好處？ - What good for you is there in doing that?
     嗰 啲 嘢 又 唔係 我 做，關 我 咩 事 啫。 - Why should I care about that! It's not like I did it.
     我 又 唔係 冇錢。 - It's not like I'm broke.
7. usage. Compared to 又 is used for something that already happened.