茄
2 readings · tap one to hear it
eggplant
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 艸 +5
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 茄
- Common rank
- #2,120
- Unicode
- U+8304
Sound it out + = · + + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
eggplant · Heisig RSH #1991
flower + 加 add
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 茄
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 茄子河区 | Qiezihe, a district of Qitaihe City 七臺河市|七台河市[Qi1 tai2 he2 Shi4], Heilongjiang | |
| 欧米茄表公司 | Omega SA, Swiss luxury watchmaker | |
| 铁板茄子 | eggplant served sizzling on a hot iron plate | |
| 茄子河 | see 茄子河區|茄子河区[Qie2 zi5 he2 Qu1] | |
| 茄红素 | Lycopene | |
| 雪茄头 | cigarette lighter plug (inserted in a car's cigarette lighter socket to draw power) | |
| 茄二十八星瓢虫 | 28-spotted ladybird; hadda beetle; Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata | |
| 烧茄子 | stewed eggplant | |
| 番茄红素 | Lycopene | |
| 雪茄烟 | cigar | |
| 茄子 | eggplant (Solanum melongena L.); aubergine; brinjal; Guinea squash; phonetic "cheese" (whe… | |
| 茄克 | variant of 夾克|夹克[jia1 ke4] | |
| 茄科 | Solanaceae (the potato and eggplant family) | |
| 小番茄 | cherry tomato | |
| 雪茄 | (loanword) cigar | |
| 树番茄 | tamarillo | |
| 野颠茄 | deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna) | |
| 茄克衫 | jacket | |
| 番茄酱 | ketchup; tomato sauce | |
| 白苋紫茄 | white amaranth, purple eggplant (idiom); common foodstuff, unpretentious lifestyle |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 加 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 加 sound part | to add to, to increase, to augment | |
| 架 | frame, rack, stand; to prop up | |
| 驾 | to drive, to ride, to sail; carriage, cart | |
| 嘉 | excellent; joyful; auspicious | |
| 咖 | coffee; used in transliterations | |
| 伽 | temple; used to transliterations | |
| 迦 | used in transliterations | |
| 痂 | scab | |
| 枷 | the stocks, a cangue scaffold | |
| 瘸 | lameness; paralysis of the hands or legs | |
| 跏 | to squat, to sit cross-legged | |
| 袈 | Buddhist cassock | |
| 笳 | reed whistle |