Tomatos and Persimmons

In Chinese, tomatoes are literally called Red Persimmons from the West (西红柿 = West + Red + Persimmon). This is so because persimmons are native from China, where they are simply called (柿子), where 子 only indicates that  the grammatical class of the word is noun (and not, say, verb).

chuang horse gate chinese character

Pictographically cool character:

闯

The meaning is to charge quickly.

It is composed of:

门

which means gate, and:

马

which means horse, clearly suggesting that a horseman is barging into someone’s gate.

 

Numeric approximations in Chinese

二   =   2

三   =    3

十    =    10

二十    =    20

三十    =   30

二三是    =    around 20 or 30