tea whisk

English

A tea whisk.

Alternative forms

• tea-whisk, teawhisk

Etymology

Calque of Japanese 茶筅 (chasen).

Noun

tea whisk (plural tea whisks)

1. a kitchen utensil shaped and used like a shaving brush but typically made of bamboo rather than badger hair and manipulated above matcha to dissolve it and make it foam.

   Synonyms: chasen, matcha whisk, (rare, in Chinese historiography) chaxian

Translations

utensil for tea

• Finnish: teevispilä
• German: Teebesen m, Matchabesen m
• Japanese: 茶筅 (ja) (chasen)
• Russian: бамбу́ковый ве́нчик m (bambúkovyj vénčik), ве́нчик для ма́тча m (vénčik dlja mátča)
• Swedish: please add this translation if you can

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