茄 (qié)
eggplant; tomato (in compounds)
How 茄 is written
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 艹 — grass
- Traditional
- 茄
- Simplified
- 茄 (unchanged)
Components
- 艹 grass
- 力 power/force
- 口 mouth
茄 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- jiā
- phonetic character used in loanwords for the sound "jia", although 夹 is more common
- qié
- eggplant
Common words using 茄
- 番茄 fānqié
- tomato
- 茄子 qiézi
- eggplant (Solanum melongena L.); aubergine; brinjal
- 番茄紅素 fānqiéhóngsù
- Lycopene
- 番茄醬 fānqiéjiàng
- ketchup; tomato sauce
- 蕃茄 fānqié
- variant of 番茄[fan1 qie2]
- 雪茄 xuějiā
- cigar (loanword)
- 番茄汁 fānqiézhī
- tomato juice
- 茄克 jiākè
- jacket (loanword); also written 夾克|夹克
- 茄紅素 qiéhóngsù
- Lycopene
茄 in a sentence
你喜歡吃番茄嗎？
Nǐ xǐhuān chī fānqié ma?
“Do you like eating tomatoes?”
How common is 茄?
茄 is the 3,130th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 99.3% of all running text.
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