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柿

shì

HSK 4 Character

What 柿 means

1. persimmon

Other readings

柿 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• shìold variant of {柿|shì}

Example sentences

• 我没买柿子椒。
  I haven't bought bell peppers.
• 梅格买了一罐西红柿。
  Méi gé mǎi le yī guàn xīhóngshì.
  Meg bought a can of tomatoes.
• 她在她花园里种西红柿。
  Tā zài tā huāyuán lǐ zhòng xīhóngshì.
  She grows tomatoes in her garden.
• 茄子，胡萝卜，西红柿。
  Eggplant, carrot, tomato.
• Tom喜不喜欢吃西红柿？
  Does Tom like tomatoes?
• 一公斤的番茄酱等于两公斤的西红柿。
  Yī gōngjīn de fānqiéjiàng děngyú liǎng gōngjīn de xīhóngshì.
  One kilogram of tomato sauce is equivalent to two kilograms of tomatoes.

Words starting with 柿

• 柿子shì zipersimmon; (Northeastern dialect) tomato
• 柿饼shì bǐngdried persimmon
• 柿子椒shì zi jiāobell pepper, aka sweet pepper
• 柿子挑软的捏shì zi tiāo ruǎn de niēlit. it's the soft persimmons that people choose to squeeze (idiom)…

Words containing 柿

• 西红柿xī hóng shìtomato
• 洋柿子yáng shì zi(dialect) tomato
• 软柿子ruǎn shì zi(colloquial) pushover; soft touch

Characters that look like 柿

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 特tèspecial; unique; distinguished
• 待dàito wait; to treat; to deal with
• 肺fèilung
• 栩xǔused in 栩栩; jolcham oak (Quercus serrata)
• 郴chēnused in 郴州
• 铈shìcerium (chemistry)

Sounds the same

Read shì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 是to be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true…
• 事matter; thing; item
• 视(literary, or bound form) to look at
• 室room; work unit; grave
• 世life; age; generation
• 市market; city; municipality (administrative unit)
• 试to test; to try; experiment
• 式type; form; pattern
• 示to show; to reveal
• 适to fit; suitable; proper
• 士member of the senior ministerial class (old); scholar (old); bachelor
• 释to explain; to release; Buddha (abbr. for 释迦牟尼