番茄酱

番茄醬

fānqiéjiàng

noun #8,226

Measure Word

一瓶番茄酱 píng

Meanings

1 ketchup; tomato sauce
2 tomato paste

Characters

foreign; barbarian; tomato (in compounds)

eggplant; used in 番茄 for tomato

sauce; paste; jam

Tomato (番茄) + sauce (酱) — ketchup or tomato sauce.

Examples

薯条要蘸番茄酱才好吃。

Shǔtiáo yào zhàn fānqiéjiàng cái hǎochī.

Fries taste good only when dipped in ketchup.

请再给我一包番茄酱。

Qǐng zài gěi wǒ yī bāo fānqiéjiàng.

Please give me another packet of ketchup.

这道菜用了很多番茄酱。

Zhè dào cài yòng le hěn duō fānqiéjiàng.

This dish uses a lot of tomato sauce.

Tips

usage

番茄酱 can refer to both ketchup (the sweet condiment) and tomato paste/sauce used in cooking. In mainland China, 番茄 is the standard word for tomato; in Taiwan, 蕃茄 (with the grass radical) is also seen.

Stroke Order

番 fān

茄 qié

酱 jiàng