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The character 茄 is a phono-semantic compound with the grass radical 艹 at the top, indicating its plant-related meaning, and the component 加 at the bottom, which supplies the phonetic sound. Pronounced as qié, it most commonly refers to the eggplant. When pronounced as jiā, it is used in phonetic transcriptions like the word for cigar and historically meant the stem of a lotus. Its structure simply combines a semantic marker for botanical category with a phonetic component, without a complex pictorial origin influencing its modern meaning.
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我爱吃茄子。
妈妈买了两个番茄。
今天晚餐有红烧茄子。
番茄炒蛋是一道家常菜。
这种茄子品种来自日本。
他正在大棚里采摘茄子。
茄子富含多种维生素和纤维。
根据研究，番茄红素有益健康。