The Chinese word for eggplant is
茄子

qié zi

Chinese Definition

eggplant
1. 名词. 茄子
Components
茄
1. (now, in compounds or dialectal) eggplant; aubergine
茄子zi - eggplant
茄泥 - mushed eggplant
番茄 - tomato, lit=foreign eggplant
2. (Cantonese) Short for 番茄, tr=faan, tomato
車厘茄ke4-2 - cherry tomato
茄ke4-2 蛋daan6-2 治 - tomato and egg sandwich
3. (historical) (place, zh, state, in modern, p/Anhui)
4. (Cantonese, colloquial) poop
屙茄ke1 - to poop
5. (Cantonese) Used in transcription
子
1. (literary) child; offspring
2. son
獨生子 - dúshēngzǐ - only son
愛子 - àizǐ - beloved son
一子一女 - yī zǐ yī nǚ - one son and one daughter
3. (literary) descendant; posterity
4. (Christianity) the Son
5. (in compounds) person
女子 (nǚzǐ) - female; woman
6. (literary) master; teacher
7. (literary) A respectful title for teachers, usually attached after their surnames.
^孔子 (Kǒngzǐ) - Master Kong (Confucius)
^老子 (Lǎozǐ) - Laozi
8. (literary, polite) you
9. Alternative form of 籽 (seed); also its second-round simplified form.
葵花子 (kuíhuāzǐ) - sunflower seed
10. egg
魚子 (yúzǐ) - caviar
11. young; tender; small
12. Prefix attached to nouns, denoting "a part of", "belonging to" or "individual". sub-
子目錄 (zǐmùlù) - subdirectory
13. (astrology) First earthly branch: rat in the Chinese zodiac, 11th solar month, midnight (11:00 pm to 1:00 am)
14. (historical) viscount (fourth of five ranks of Chinese aristocracy under the Zhou dynasty)
15. (physics, biology) -on
16. (Min Nan) grain-like object; particle; granule
17. (Min Nan, music) rhythm
18. (Min Nan)
19. Suffix:
20. Used to nominalize.
21. 瓶子zi - píngzi - bottle
22. 刷子zi - shuāzi - brush
23. 胖子zi - pàngzi - fat person
24. (colloquial) Used in some classifiers.
25. 一下子zi - yīxiàzi - all of a sudden
26. small, round object
算盤子jí (sǹg-pôaⁿ-jí) - abacus bead, MN
27. (Xiamen, Quanzhou)
28. (Zhangzhou, Taiwan)