Translingual Edit
Glyph origin Edit
Old Chinese
斜 *lja, *laː 茶 *rlaː 荼 *rlaː, *ɦlja, *l'aː 梌 *rlaː, *l̥ʰaː, *l'aː 搽 *rlaː 塗 *rlaː, *l'aː 佘 *ɦlja 賒 *hljaː 畬 *hljaː, *la 舍 *hljaːʔ, *hljaːs 捨 *hljaːʔ 騇 *hljaːʔ, *hljaːs 涻 *hljaːs 稌 *l̥ʰaː, *l̥ʰaːʔ 悇 *l̥ʰaː, *l̥ʰas, *las 庩 *l̥ʰaː 捈 *l̥ʰaː, *l'aː 途 *l'aː 酴 *l'aː 駼 *l'aː 鵌 *l'aː, *la 涂 *l'aː, *l'a 嵞 *l'aː 峹 *l'aː 筡 *l'aː, *l̥ʰa 蒤 *l'aː 徐 *lja 俆 *lja 敘 *ljaʔ 漵 *ljaʔ 除 *l'a, *l'as 篨 *rla 滁 *rla 蒢 *rla 蜍 *ɦlja, *la 鵨 *hljaː 瑹 *hlja 余 *la 餘 *la 艅 *la 狳 *la 雓 *la 悆 *las
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 OC *rlaː艹 余 ( OC *la) .
茶 originates as a graphical modification of archaic 荼 OC *rlaː, *ɦlja, *l'aː
Etymology Edit 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 *sla ( “ leaf ” ) (compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *slaʔ
Alternatively, Qiu (1988) suggests that it might be a semantic extension of 荼 OC *l'aː
Pronunciation Edit
Note :
tê/têe - vernacular;
tâ, chhâ - literary. Wu
Xiang
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
茶 Reading #
1/1
No.
15747
Phonetic
余 Rime
魚 Rime
0
Corresponding
𡨀 Old
/*rlaː/
Notes
俗 𣘻 字 ，荼 轉 註 分 化 字
Definitions Edit 茶
tea ( plant, leaves ) tea ( beverage made by infusing tea leaves in hot water )
綠茶 绿茶 lǜchá beverage ( in general )
涼茶 凉茶 liángchá Chinese medicine
午時茶 午时茶 wǔshíchá (please add an English translation of this example) yum cha
早茶 zǎochá (please add an English translation of this example) ( obsolete ) a moment ( the time it takes to drink a cup of tea ) ( dialectal Mandarin , Cantonese , Gan , Xiang , Wu ) boiled or boiling water A surname . Dialectal synonyms of
茶 (“tea (drink)”)
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Variety
Location
Words
Classical Chinese
茶 檟 蔎 茗 荈 Formal (Written Standard Chinese )
茶 Mandarin
Beijing
茶 Taiwan
茶 Harbin
茶 Muping
茶 Jinan
茶 Luoyang
茶 Wanrong
茶 Xi'an
茶 Yinchuan
茶 Lanzhou
茶 Xining
茶 Ürümqi
茶 Wuhan
茶 Chengdu
茶 Guiyang
茶 Guilin
茶 Liuzhou
茶 Xuzhou
茶 茶葉茶 Yangzhou
茶 茶葉茶 Nanjing
茶 Hefei
茶 Nantong
茶葉茶 Malaysia
茶 Singapore
茶 Cantonese
Guangzhou
茶 Hong Kong
茶 Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)
夷茶 Hong Kong (Kam Tin Weitou)
茶 Hong Kong (Ting Kok)
茶葉茶 Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)
茶葉茶 Macau
茶 Panyu
茶 Huadu (Huashan)
茶 Conghua
茶 Zengcheng
茶 Foshan
茶 Nanhai (Shatou)
茶 Shunde
茶 Sanshui
茶 Gaoming (Mingcheng)
茶 Zhongshan (Shiqi)
茶 Zhuhai (Qianshan)
茶 Doumen (Shangheng Tanka)
茶 Doumen
茶 Jiangmen (Baisha)
茶 Xinhui
茶 Taishan
茶 Kaiping (Chikan)
茶 Enping (Niujiang)
茶 Heshan (Yayao)
茶 Dongguan
茶 Bao'an (Shajing)
茶 Yangjiang
茶 Beihai
茶 Beihai (Qiaogang - Cát Bà)
茶 Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu)
茶 Singapore (Guangfu)
茶 Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu)
茶 Gan
Nanchang
茶 茶葉茶 Lichuan
茶 Pingxiang
茶 Hakka
Meixian
茶 Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)
茶 Dongguan (Qingxi)
茶 Shenzhen (Shatoujiao)
茶 Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui)
茶 Conghua (Lütian)
茶 Yudu
茶 Miaoli (N. Sixian)
茶 Liudui (S. Sixian)
茶 Hsinchu (Hailu)
茶 Dongshi (Dabu)
茶 Hsinchu (Raoping)
茶 Yunlin (Zhao'an)
茶 Hong Kong
茶葉茶 Senai (Huiyang)
茶 Huizhou
Jixi
茶 Jin
Taiyuan
茶 Min Bei
Jian'ou
茶 Min Dong
Fuzhou
茶 Fuqing
茶 Matsu
茶 Min Nan
Xiamen
茶 Quanzhou
茶 Zhangzhou
茶 Taipei
茶 Kaohsiung
茶 Tainan
茶 Taichung
茶 Hsinchu
茶 Lukang
茶 Sanxia
茶 Yilan
茶 Kinmen
茶 Magong
茶 Penang (Hokkien)
茶 Singapore (Hokkien)
茶 Manila (Hokkien)
茶 Chaozhou
茶 Shantou
茶 Chaoyang
茶 Jieyang
茶 Haifeng
茶 Bangkok (Teochew)
茶 Johor Bahru (Teochew)
茶 Singapore (Teochew)
茶 Leizhou
茶 Wenchang
茶 Haikou
茶 Singapore (Hainanese)
茶 Zhongshan Min
Shaxi (Longdu)
茶 Southern Pinghua
Nanning (Tingzi)
茶 Wu
Shanghai
茶葉茶 Chongming
茶葉茶 Suzhou
茶 茶葉茶 Danyang
茶 茶葉茶 Hangzhou
茶 Ningbo
茶 茶葉茶 Wenzhou
茶 茶葉茶 Jinhua
茶 Xiang
Changsha
茶 茶葉茶 Shuangfeng
茶 Loudi
茶
Dialectal synonyms of
開水 (“boiled water”)
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Variety
Location
Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese )
開水 Mandarin
Beijing
開水 Taiwan
開水 Tianjin
開水 Harbin
開水 Muping
開水 Jinan
開水 Luoyang
開水 滾水 Wanrong
滾水 Xi'an
開水 Yinchuan
滾水 Xining
開水 Ürümqi
開水 滾水 Wuhan
開水 Chengdu
開水 滾水 Guiyang
開水 Guilin
開水 Liuzhou
開水 Yangzhou
開水 茶 Xinghua
開水 滾水 透水 Nanjing
開水 Hefei
開水 Malaysia
滾水 燒水 Singapore
滾水 Cantonese
Guangzhou
滾水 茶 Hong Kong
滾水 Hong Kong (San Tin Weitou)
滾水 Hong Kong (Kam Tin Weitou)
滾水 Hong Kong (Ting Kok)
滾水 Hong Kong (Tung Ping Chau)
滾水 Macau
滾水 Panyu
滾水 Huadu (Huashan)
滾水 Conghua
滾水 Zengcheng
滾水 Foshan
滾水 Nanhai (Shatou)
滾水 Shunde
滾水 Sanshui
滾水 Gaoming (Mingcheng)
滾水 Zhongshan (Shiqi)
滾水 Zhuhai (Qianshan)
滾水 Doumen (Shangheng Tanka)
滾水 Doumen
滾水 Jiangmen (Baisha)
滾水 Xinhui
滾水 Taishan
滾水 Kaiping (Chikan)
滾水 Enping (Niujiang)
滾水 Heshan (Yayao)
滾水 Dongguan
滾水 Bao'an (Shajing)
滾水 Dapeng
滾水 Qingyuan
滾水 Fogang
滾水 Yingde (Hanguang)
滾水 Yangshan
滾水 Lianshan (Butian)
滾水 Lianzhou (Qingshui Sihui)
滾水 Shaoguan
開水 Qujiang
滾水 Renhua
開心水 Lechang
開水 Gaoyao
滾水 Sihui
滾水 Guangning
滾水 Deqing
滾水 Huaiji
滾水 Fengkai (Nanfeng)
滾水 Yunfu
滾水 Xinxing
滾水 Luoding
滾水 Yunan (Pingtai)
滾水 Yangjiang
滾水 Xinyi
滾水 Maoming (Xinpo)
滾水 Lianjiang
滾水 Wuchuan (Wuyang)
滾水 Nanning
滾水 Wuzhou
滾水 Yulin
滾水 Hepu (Lianzhou)
滾水 Guiping
開水 Mengshan (Xihe)
滾水 Guigang (Nanjiang)
滾水 Beiliu (Tangliao)
滾水 Baise
開水 Bobai
滾水 Lingshan
滾水 Pubei
滾水 Qinzhou
滾水 Beihai
滾水 Ningming
開水 Hengxian
泡心水 Hezhou (Pumen)
開水 Gan
Nanchang
開水 茶 Lichuan
開水 茶 Pingxiang
開水 茶 Pengze
滾水 Hakka
Meixian
滾水 沸水 dated Xingning
沸水 Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua)
滾水 Huiyang
沸水 Huidong (Daling)
沸水 Shenzhen (Shatoujiao)
開水 Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui)
沸水 Wuhua (Shuizhai)
沸水 Wuhua (Huacheng)
沸水 滾水 Wuhua (Changbu)
沸水 Wuhua (Mianyang)
沸水 Heyuan (Bendihua)
滾水 Wengyuan
滾水 Qujiang
滾開水 Lianshan (Xiaosanjiang)
滾水 Liannan
滾水 Conghua (Lütian)
滾水 Jiexi
滾水 Luhe
滾水 Zhao'an (Xiuzhuan)
滾水 Changting
滾水 Wuping
滾水 Wuping (Yanqian)
茶 滾水 Wuping (Pingyu)
滾水 Liancheng
滾湯 Ninghua
滾水 Yudu
開水 滾湯 滾水 Ningdu
開水 Ruijin
煎湯 Shicheng
滾水 煎水 Shangyou
爆水 Tonggu (Sandu)
開水 Ganzhou (Panlong)
開水 Dayu
翻心水 Miaoli (N. Sixian)
滾水 Liudui (S. Sixian)
滾水 Hsinchu (Hailu)
滾水 Dongshi (Dabu)
滾水 Hsinchu (Raoping)
滾水 Yunlin (Zhao'an)
滾水 Hong Kong
沸水 Yangxi (Tangkou)
滾水 Yangchun (Sanjia)
滾水 Xinyi (Sihe)
滾水 Xinyi (Qianpai)
滾水 Gaozhou (Xindong)
滾水 開水 Dianbai (Shalang)
滾水 Huazhou (Xin'an)
滾水 Lianjiang (Shijiao)
滾水 Lianjiang (Qingping)
滾水 Mengshan (Xihe)
滾水 Luchuan
滾水 Luchuan (Daqiao)
開水 Beiliu (Tang'an)
開水 Mashan (Pianlian)
開水 Senai (Huiyang)
滾水 沸水 dated Singkawang
滾水 Huizhou
Jixi
滾水 開水 Jin
Taiyuan
開水 滾水 Yunzhou (Xicetian)
開水 熬水 Xinzhou
滾水 Min Bei
Jian'ou
滾湯 開水 Jian'ou (Dikou)
滾湯 Zhenghe (Zhenqian)
滾湯 Pucheng (Shibei)
沸水 茶 Min Dong
Fuzhou
開水 滾湯 Min Nan
Xiamen
滾水 Quanzhou
滾水 Zhangzhou
滾水 Taipei
白茶 滾水 Kaohsiung
滾水 Tainan
滾水 Taichung
滾水 Hsinchu
滾水 Lukang
滾水 Sanxia
滾水 Yilan
滾水 Kinmen
滾水 Magong
滾水 Penang (Hokkien)
滾水 Manila (Hokkien)
滾水 Pingnan (Shangdu)
開水 Guilin (Biyange)
滾水 Chaozhou
滾水 Shantou
滾水 Chenghai
滾水 Jieyang
滾水 Haifeng
滾水 Leizhou
沸水 Wenchang
沸水 Haikou
沸水 Zhongshan Min
Shaxi (Longdu)
沸水 Southern Pinghua
Nanning (Tingzi)
滾水 Northern Pinghua
Guilin (Dahe)
開水 Lingui (Liutang)
開水 Lingchuan (Sanjie)
開水 Lingchuan (Shuangzhou)
開水 Shehua
Fu'an
沸水 Fuding
沸水 Luoyuan
沸水 Sanming
沸水 Shunchang
沸水 Hua'an
沸水 Guixi
沸水 Cangnan
沸水 Jingning
沸水 Lishui
沸水 Longyou
沸湯 Chaozhou
滾水 Fengshun
滾水 Waxiang
Guzhang (Gaofeng)
開水 Yuanling (Shaojiwan)
開水 Luxi (Liangjiatan)
開水 Wu
Shanghai
開水 茶水 滾水 滾湯 Chongming
茶 Suzhou
開水 茶 滾水 Danyang
開水 滾水 茶 Hangzhou
開水 Ningbo
開水 滾水 茶 Wenzhou
開水 茶湯 Jinhua
開水 滾湯 茶 Xiang
Changsha
開水 茶 滾水子 Shuangfeng
開水 Loudi
開水 滾水 Quanzhou
開水 Qinglong (Changliu Laba Miao)
開水 滾水
Compounds Edit Descendants Edit Sino-Xenic (
茶 ):
→ Japanese: 茶( ちゃ ) ( cha ) (see there for further descendants )→ Okinawan:茶 ( ちゃー ) ( chā ) → Korean:차 茶 cha )→ Vietnamese: trà ( 茶 ) Others :
→ Cebuano: tsa ( via Cantonese ) → Drung: cha → English: cha char ( via Cantonese ) → Hlai: dhe ( via Hainanese ) → Khmer: តែ ( tae ) → Malay: ca ( via Cantonese ) → Malay: teh ( via Hokkien ) Indonesian: teh → Dutch: thee Afrikaans: tee → West Frisian: tee → Dutch Low Saxon: thee → Danish: te → English: tea Gullah: tea Jamaican Creole: tea → Abenaki: ti → Chickasaw: tii' → Cocopa: ṭi· → Cornish: té → Cree:Canadian syllabics: ᑎᕀ ( tiy ) Latin: tiy → Irish: tae → Maori: tī → Malecite-Passamaquoddy: ti → Mikasuki: ti'g'tlo'q ji'gitlo'q ( “ kettle ” ) ( from "tea kettle" ) → Panamint: tii → Unami: ti → Welsh: te → French: thé Haitian Creole: te Louisiana Creole French: thé → Armenian: թեյ ( tʿey ) → Coeur d'Alene: liiti → Greek: τέϊον ( téïon ) ( with neuter suffix -ion ) → Italian: tè → Norman: thée → Occitan: tè → Romansch: te té tè → South Slavey: lidí → Tiri: tee → Walloon: té → German: Tee → German Low German: Tee → Estonian: tee → Hunsrik: Tee → Lower Sorbian: tej → Romansch: te té tè → Saterland Frisian: Tee → Silesian: tyj → Slovene: te ( dialectal ) → Silesian German: Tee → Vilamovian: tyy → Zipser German: Tee → Icelandic: te → New Latin: thea → Latvian: tēja → Norwegian:te → Sranan Tongo: te → Swedish: te the thé → Mongolian: цай ( tsaj ) ᠴᠠᠢ ( čai ) ( via Mandarin ) → Persian: چا ( čâ ) ( via Mandarin ) , چای ( čây ) ( via Mandarin, with Persian suffix -y(i) added ) (see there for further descendants )→ Portuguese: chá ( via Cantonese ) → Apalaí: xa → Gujarati: ચા ( cā ) → Hunsrik: Scha → Nheengatu: xaa → Tetum: xá → Spanish: té ( via Hokkien ) → Asturian: té → Basque: te → Catalan: te → Galician: té → Navajo: dééh → Occitan: tè → Tai: *ɟaːᴬ Bouyei: xaz
Lao: ຊາ ( sā )
Thai: ชา ( chaa )
Zhuang: caz → Tagalog: tsaa ( via Cantonese ) → Tibetan: ཇ ( ja ) → Vietnamese:chè ( 茶 , 𦷨 ) → Yonaguni: さー References Edit
茶
(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji )
tea Compounds Edit Etymology Edit From various dialects of Middle Chinese 茶 MC ɖˠaMandarin chá , Hakka chhà , Cantonese caa4 .
Pronunciation Edit 茶( ちゃ ) • (cha
tea ( not used in isolation in modern Japanese ) brown Usage notes Edit This term is not used on its own in modern Japanese. For the tea お ( o- ) , or in a compound such as 茎茶 ( kukicha , literally “ stem tea ” ) or 緑茶 ( ryokucha , “ green tea ” ) .
お茶( ちゃ ) Ocha wa ikaga desuka. How about some tea? (Would you like some tea?) For the brown 色 ( -iro ) , as in 茶色 ( chairo , “ brown ” , literally “ tea color ” ) .
Descendants Edit → Ainu: チャ ( ca ) → Nivkh: ча ( ț’a ) References Edit
Etymology 1 Edit From Early Mandarin 茶 EM *tʂʰaᴸᴸ Mandarin chá , Hakka chhà , Cantonese caa4 .
Pronunciation Edit Wikisource
茶 (eumhun 차 차 ( cha cha ) )
Hanja form? 차 ( “ tea ” ) .Usage notes Edit This reading is used as a standalone word to mean "tea ."
Compounds Edit
Compounds
차례 茶禮 charye , “ancestral rites ; Charye ”)녹차 綠茶 nokcha )말차 抹茶 malcha )홍차 紅茶 hongcha )찻잔 茶 盞 chatjan )차반 茶盤 chaban )냉차 冷茶 naengcha , “iced tea ”)찻장 茶 欌 chatjang , “tea cabinet ”)차구 茶具 chagu )
Etymology 2 Edit From Middle Chinese 茶 MC ɖˠa
Historical Readings
Dongguk Jeongun Reading Dongguk Jeongun, 1448
땅 Yale : ttà )
Middle Korean Text Eumhun Gloss Reading
Hunmong Jahoe, 1527
차 Yale : chà )다 Yale : tà )
Pronunciation Edit 茶 (eumhun 차 다 ( cha da ) )
( only in compounds ) Hanja form? 다 ( “ tea ” ) .( only in compounds ) Hanja form? 다 ( “ brown ” ) .Compounds Edit
Compounds
다식 茶食 dasik )다과 茶菓 dagwa )다기 茶器 dagi )다구 茶具 dagu )다방 茶房 dabang )다화 茶話 dahwa , “tea -table talk ”)다색 茶色 dasaek )끽다 喫茶 kkikda )다소 茶素 daso , “caffeine ”)다과회 茶菓會 dagwahoe , “tea club ”)다반사 茶飯事 dabansa , “everyday affair ”)다갈색 茶褐色 dagalsaek )
References Edit 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典 . [2]
Vietnamese Edit 
