辣 - pungent, spicy, harsh

hot-and-sour cabbage

mala (spicy and numbing seasoning)

Chinese onion (Allium chinense); Chinese scallion; Kiangsi scallion; rakkyo

laziji; spicy Sichuan chicken dish

Japanese onion (Allium thunbergii)

hot and sour soup

hot and sour noodles (Szechuan dish)

crafty; vicious; unscrupulous; sharp

bitter (e.g. criticism); sharp; biting; severe; scathing; harsh

shrewdness; sharpness; astuteness; acumen; tact