茶
Meanings
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- 1.tea
- 2.tea plant
- 3.CL:杯[bēi],壶[hú]
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Wiktionary
- 1.tea (plant, leaves)
- 2.tea (beverage made by infusing tea leaves in hot water) (Classifier: 杯; 壺／壶)
- 3.certain kinds of beverage or liquid food
- 4.Chinese medicine
- 5.yum cha
- 6.a moment (the time it takes to drink a cup of tea)
- 7.boiled or boiling water
- 8.appearing innocent while behaving in a calculating way, especially to attract sympathy or romantic interest
- 9.a surname
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *rlaː): semantic 艹 + phonetic 余 (OC *la). 茶, then slightly modified into a more conservative 茶, originates as a graphical modification of archaic 荼 (*rlaː, “bitter plant”), used for “tea” in classical sources. The modern version is unrelated to the bottom component of 條. As tea may have originated from Sichuan, where the native Yi people speak Loloish languages, Sagart (1999) suggests that the Old Chinese item was possibly originally borrowed from Proto-Loloish *la¹ (“tea”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la (“leaf; tea”). Schuessler (2007) traces its ultimate origin to Proto-Austroasiatic *slaʔ (“leaf”) (in Sidwell's 2024 reconstruction). Alternatively, Qiu (1988) suggests that it might be a semantic extension of 荼 (*rlaː, “bitter plant”).
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Components
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Example sentences
我喜欢茶。
I like tea.
茶壺沸了。
The kettle is boiling.
他喜歡茶。
He likes tea.
能來點茶嗎？
Could you get me some tea?
這是你的茶。
Here's your tea.
她给我沏了茶。
She made tea for me.
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