茶 (chá): meaning and stroke order
茶 (chá) means tea, tea plant, CL:杯壶.
茶
- Simplified
- 茶
- Traditional
- 茶 (same form)
- Pinyin
- chá
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Stroke order of 茶
茶
- chá tea; tea plant
- 9 strokes
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Meaning of 茶
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chá
- tea
- tea plant
- CL:杯[bei1],壺|壶[hu2]
Radical and structure
- 茶
- Radical 艸 (Kangxi radical 140) · 10 strokes
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Words with 茶
- 奶茶 nǎi chá milk tea
- 茶杯 chá bēi teacup; tea-glass
- 红茶 hóng chá black tea; CL:杯[bei1],壺|壶[hu2]
- 绿茶 lǜ chá green tea; (slang) (of a girl) seemingly innocent and charming but actually calculating and manipulative
- 茶馆 chá guǎn teahouse; CL:家[jia1]
茶 in our stories
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方明也笑了：“我也不喜欢！我们换两杯茶吧。”
Fāng Míng yě xiào le wǒ yě bù xǐhuan wǒmen huàn liǎng bēi chá ba
Fang Ming laughed too: "Neither do I! Let's swap them for two teas."
From the story The first date HSK 2
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亭子里有一位卖茶的老人，他给每个人倒了一杯热茶。
tíngzi lǐ yǒu yí wèi mài chá de lǎorén tā gěi měi gè rén dào le yì bēi rè chá
An old man sold tea in the pavilion, and he poured each of them a cup of hot tea.
From the story No umbrella HSK 3
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半夜，他被一阵轻轻的脚步声吵醒，一个穿白衣服的姑娘端着一杯茶站在他面前。
bànyè tā bèi yí zhèn qīngqīng de jiǎobùshēng chǎoxǐng yí gè chuān bái yīfu de gūniang duān zhe yì bēi chá zhàn zài tā miànqián
At midnight he was woken by soft footsteps: a girl in white stood before him holding a cup of tea.
From the story The girl in the painting HSK 5
Where you learn it
茶 appears in the vocabulary of our HSK 1 learning material. This is a Mythic Mandarin word list, not an official HSK list.
Stories using 茶
- The first date HSK 2
- No umbrella HSK 3
- The girl in the painting HSK 5
- Great-uncle's wooden box HSK 6
- The persimmon tree over the wall HSK 7–9 · Level 9
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).