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Text style is forced with ⟨︎⟩ and emoji style with ⟨️⟩.
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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
Particle
🌶︎
- (Internet slang) alternative form of 啦
- Used at the end of a sentence to indicate a change of state with a strong emotion.
- Used at the end of a sentence to inform the beginning of an action with a strong emotion.