Chili pepper in Chinese (Mandarin): 辣椒 (làjiāo)

辣椒
làjiāo
chili pepper
- Simplified
- 辣椒
- Traditional
- 辣椒
- Pinyin
- làjiāo
- Typed as
- lajiao
Use it in a sentence
辣椒吃起来很辣。
辣椒吃起來很辣。
Chili peppers taste very spicy.
The characters in 辣椒
辣
Spicy.
14 strokes
椒
Pepper. 木 (tree) is on the left.
12 strokes
辣椒 is a "spicy pepper". A green bell pepper is 青椒 (qīngjiāo), which is not spicy.
More examples with 辣椒
辣椒是红色的。
辣椒是紅色的。
Làjiāo shì hóngsè de.
The chili is red.
我不吃辣椒。
Wǒ bù chī làjiāo.
I don't eat chili peppers.
How to write 辣椒 in Chinese
Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.
辣 14 strokes
椒 12 strokes
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