pepper, chili, or prickly ash

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Example Sentences

Real-world example sentences demonstrating how is used in context
1
huā
jiāo
ràng
zhè
dào
cài
gèng
yǒu
fēng
wèi

Sichuan pepper makes this dish more flavorful.

2
qǐng
gěi
xiē
jiāo
tiáo
wèi

Please give me some black pepper for seasoning.

3
zhè
dào
cài
yào
jiā
xiē
jiāo

This dish needs some chili pepper.

4
zhè
shì
jiāo

This is chili pepper.

5
huān
chī
jiāo
chǎo
ròu

I like to eat stir-fried pork with chili peppers.

6
zhè
dào
cài
jiā
le
tài
duō
jiāo
zhí
shuǐ

This dish has too much chili pepper added, it's so spicy that I keep drinking water.

Information

Traditional
Radical
Strokes12
StructureLeft-Right
Frequency#1726
Zhuyinㄐㄧㄠ
Components
UnicodeU+6912
CangjieDLMF
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Cultural note

Traditional Chinese culture often connects characters and names with the Five Elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water) and Yin–Yang, a system also used to describe personality tendencies.

Learn how the Five Elements describe personality