番茄酱 (fānqiéjiàng) · ketchup; tomato sauce

Measure Word

一瓶番茄酱 píng

Meanings

1 ketchup; tomato sauce
2 tomato paste

About the ingredient

调料 Seasonings

In everyday talk the sweet-sour ketchup served with fries; on cans it can also mean unsweetened concentrated tomato paste. Chinese cooks use it for the glossy red sweet-and-sour sauce on fried pork and fish.

Also called 番茄沙司

Used in 7 dishes

Characters

番

fān

foreign; tomato (in compounds)

茄

qié

eggplant; used in 番茄 for tomato

酱

jiàng

sauce; paste; jam

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

Examples

HSK 2

请再给我一包番茄酱。

Qǐng zài gěi wǒ yì bāo fānqiéjiàng.

Please give me another packet of ketchup.

HSK 4

这道菜用了很多番茄酱。

Zhè dào cài yòng le hěnduō fānqiéjiàng.

This dish uses a lot of tomato sauce.

HSK 7-9

薯条要蘸番茄酱才好吃。

Shǔtiáo yào zhàn fānqiéjiàng cái hǎochī.

Fries taste good only when dipped in ketchup.

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.