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Translingual
Description
A chili pepper.
Symbol
🌶︎
- An emoji representing a chili pepper.
- Used on menus to indicate that food is spicy, often with the number of peppers proportional to the spiciness of the dish.
- (chiefly Internet slang) Spicy, risqué. (Used to indicate sexual content.)
Chinese
Etymology
From 辣 (là), homophonic play on 啦 (la) in Mandarin.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: la
- Zhuyin: ˙ㄌㄚ
- Tongyong Pinyin: lå
- Wade–Giles: la5
- Yale: la
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: .la
- Palladius: ла (la)
- Sinological IPA (key): /lä/
- (Standard Chinese)+
Particle
🌶︎