Tomato in Chinese
tomato · HSK 4
西红柿
- 西 west
- 红 red
- 柿 persimmon
Counted with 个: 一个西红柿
我最爱吃西红柿炒鸡蛋。 My favorite dish is stir-fried tomato and eggs.
Other ways to say tomato
More words with 西 or 红 or 柿
How do you say tomato in Chinese?
Tomato in Chinese is 西红柿 (xī hóng shì). You can also say 番茄 (fān qié).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.