火辣辣

huǒlàlà

adjective HSK 7 #21,428

Meanings

1 scorching hot
2 burning; stinging (of pain)
3 intense; heated (of emotions)
4 fiery; sharp-tongued (of personality)

Characters

(reduplication for emphasis)

Examples

太阳火辣辣地照着大地。

Tàiyáng huǒlàlà de zhào zhe dàdì.

The sun beat down scorchingly on the earth.

被打了一巴掌，脸上火辣辣的。

Bèi dǎ le yī bāzhǎng, liǎn shàng huǒlàlà de.

After being slapped, his face stung with a burning pain.

Tips

grammar

The ABB pattern (火辣辣) is a common adjective intensifier in Chinese. It's more vivid and colloquial than 火辣, and often used with 地 as an adverb: 火辣辣地.

Stroke Order

火 huǒ

辣 là