# Which languages have an unabiguous word for "hot because of chile"

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 5, 2004, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-languages-have-an-unabiguous-word-for-hot-because-of-chile/273252 "2004-11-05T20:28:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![WonJonSoup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@WonJonSoup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WonJonSoup)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-languages-have-an-unabiguous-word-for-hot-because-of-chile/273252/61 "2004-11-11T09:45:31Z")

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Yeah, that first character I know is the lat I’m referring to as spicy food hot. And yeah, I use yit for temperature hot, but like, hmmm…not sure how to explain myself. I think the other lat I’m referring to seems to play the same role as that “tang.” Another Cantonese colloquialism perhaps? But I know we use the other form of lat in this household, usually when my mother would tell me as a kid not to touch that pot cuz it’ll burn my little fingers off.

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