aji

A spicy Peruvian sauce, often containing tomatoes, cilantro, hot peppers, and onions.

In Peru the consumption of aji is greater than that of salt[…]

A chili pepper, in the context of South American cuisine.

Add the onion, the garlic, the red pepper, the ajies, the pepper, cumin and salt.

A horse mackerel, especially the Japanese horse mackerel, Trachurus japonicus

Although aji are found in temperate waters around the world, if you have the fish in a sushi-ya here, it almost certainly was caught and frozen in Japan.

The ‘flavour’ of a position, i.e. the extent to which it has lingering possibilities such as bad aji which may not be exploitable when they first arise yet still influence further play; good aji generally means there are few weaknesses.

Bad aji.