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番茄

fān qié

HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

番茄 (fān qié) means "tomato". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 番茄 means

1. tomato

The characters in 番茄

• 番fān(bound form) foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian; classifier for processes or actions that…
• 茄qiéeggplant

Example sentences

• 梅格买一罐番茄。
  Meg bought a can of tomatoes.
• 不是血，是番茄酱。
  Bù shì xuè, shì fānqiéjiàng.
  It's not blood - it's ketchup.
• 他在他的花园种番茄。
  Tā zài tā de huāyuán zhǒng fānqié.
  He grows tomatoes in his garden.
• 番茄是蔬菜而不是水果。
  The tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit.
• 番茄容易遭受很多病害。
  The tomato is subject to a number of diseases.
• 严格地讲，番茄是水果。
  Strictly speaking, the tomato is a fruit.

Words starting with 番茄

• 番茄酱fān qié jiàngketchup; tomato sauce
• 番茄汁fān qié zhītomato juice
• 番茄红素fān qié hóng sùLycopene

Words containing 番茄

• 小番茄xiǎo fān qiécherry tomato
• 树番茄shù fān qiétamarillo
• 樱桃番茄yīng táo fān qiécherry tomato

Sounds the same

Read fān qié, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 蕃茄variant of 番茄

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