Meanings of two words

[msa50]

Hi

How do you say "tomato" and "sweep" in Chinese?

the sweep I am speaking about is like this http://www.lmada.com/vb/imgcache/2/16061lmada.jpg

thnx

[semantic nuance]

tomato 蕃茄

sweep 掃把

EDIT: 蕃茄 fan1 qie2 (corrected)

掃把 sao4 ba3

[msa50]

I mean how you pronounce them. thnx

[msa50]

thnx

[Hofmann]

茄 Pinyin qie2.

[semantic nuance]

oops! a typo! Strange! I was thinking of qie2 but I had no idea why I typed it qui2. Sorry for the mistake.:o

[skylee]

tomato is also called 西紅柿 -> http://hk.dictionary.yahoo.com/dictionary?p=%E8%A5%BF%E7%B4%85%E6%9F%BF

Re 番茄. Should it be 蕃 or 番?

[SiMaKe]

@skylee

Some dictionaries have 番茄, others have 蕃茄. But all the ones I checked say fān qié.

And they both get comparable numbers of hits on Google.

[jbradfor]

MDBG calls 蕃茄 a variant of 番茄.

Asking google gives 10,100,000 hits for 蕃茄 and 10,900,000 million for 番茄. So based on the authority of google, I think we can call it a tie.

[Jane_PA]

tomato can be called 蕃茄，fan1 qie2； or 西红柿 xi1, hong2, shi4；or 柿子 shi4 zi

sweep can be called 笤帚tiao2 zhou，扫帚 sao4 zhou，扫把 sao3 ba1, or

A personal guess, origionally, it was 番 because 番 means foreign in Chinese， tomato was from outside of China. 番茄 may mean foreign fruit。

But, later, Chinese also has a character 蕃 which related to plant, sure, we can use it for 蕃茄，which looks for suitable.