While looking through her 1-year-old niece’s books, one woman got a shock after discovering what an alphabet book had picked to represent the letter X.

Karen Thomas Mahoney, from North Carolina, shared a video on TikTok after flipping through an A-to-Z board book focused on healthy foods.

While most of the letters were straightforward, “A” for avocado, “B” for banana, and zucchini for "Z", the entry for “X” left her stunned.

The book appeared to be restricted to foods only, so the trusty “xylophone”, or "x-ray fish", wouldn't have been appropriate, the book instead featured “xīguā,” the Mandarin Chinese word for watermelon.

In the video on TikTok that now has more than 1 million views, Mahoney showed off the unusual book page, laughing at the addition to the A-Z.

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