Character: 辣
Modern (Beijing) reading: là
Preclassic Old Chinese: rāt
Classic Old Chinese: rāt
Western Han Chinese: rāt
Eastern Han Chinese: rāt
Early Postclassic Chinese: lāt
Middle Postclassic Chinese: lāt
Late Postclassic Chinese: lāt
Middle Chinese: lât
English meaning : bitter, not sweet [Tang]
Russian meaning[s]: 1) острый; едкий; горький; 2) ожесточенный, яростный
Comments: In Viet. cf. also nhạt 'insipid, not salted' (written with the same character and possibly a colloquial loan from the same source - although nasalisation is not clear). For *r- cf. Min forms: Xiamen luat8, luaʔ8, Chaozhou laʔ8, Fuzhou lak8, Jianou luoi8, Jianyang lue8, Shaowu lai6.
Radical: 160
Four-angle index: 5392
Vietnamese reading: lạt
Jianchuan Bai: la5-
Dali Bai: la5-
Bijiang Bai: lo7-
