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🌶 U+1F336, 🌶 HOT PEPPER ← 🌵 [U+1F335] Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs 🌷 → [U+1F337]

Translingual

Description

A chili pepper.

Symbol

🌶︎

1. (used on menus to indicate that food is spicy, often with the number of peppers proportional to the spiciness of the dish)

Presentations of 🌶︎

Text style	Emoji style
🌶︎	🌶️
Note: Character's appearance may be different on each system. Text style is forced with ︎ and emoji style with ️

Chinese

Etymology

From 辣 (là), homophonic play on 啦 (la) in Mandarin.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): la (la⁵／la⁰)

  (Zhuyin): ˙ㄌㄚ

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• 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/

Particle

🌶︎

1. (Internet slang) Alternative form of 啦
   1. Used at the end of a sentence to indicate a change of state with a strong emotion.
   2. Used at the end of a sentence to inform the beginning of an action with a strong emotion.