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西红柿

xī hóng shì

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 3-character word Traditional 西紅柿

西红柿 (xī hóng shì) means "tomato". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 西红柿 means

1. tomato

The characters in 西红柿

• 西xīwest
• 红hóngred; popular; revolutionary
• 柿shìpersimmon

Example sentences

• 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.

Where 西红柿 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Dining & social customs (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xī hóng shì correctly.
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