TEA  茶

LIQUID FOR DRINKING PRODUCED USING HOT WATER AND LEAVES. []
Hypernym
  • LIQUIDSUBSTANCE which CAN FLOW.
    • SUBSTANCETHING NOT SEPARATED into SEPARATE PARTS.
      • THINGCONCRETE OBJECT.
        • OBJECT[NO HYPERNYM.] WHAT one CAN NAME:refer to....
Old Chinese Criteria
1. The general word for tea is chá 茶, and the custom of drinking tea developed from Han times onwards. Whether SHI refers to tea remains very much an open question.

2. Míng 茗 is an alternative rare designation for tea, especially referring to tea that is plucked late in the plucking season, according to the Tea Classic.

3. Chuǎn 荈 is an alternative word for míng 茗.

Modern Chinese Criteria
茶

茶水

茶葉

NB 咖啡茶 refers to coffee, not tea.

first rough draft to identify synonym group members for future analysis 18.11.2003. CH

  • The Impact of Buddhim on Chinese Material Culture ( KIESCHNICK 2003) p. 262-275

  • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 4.1365

Words

茶  chá OC: ɡrlaa MC: ɖɣɛ 1 Attribution

The general word for tea is chá 茶, and the custom of drinking tea developed from Han times onwards. Whether SHI refers to tea remains very much an open question.

    Syntactic words
  • nmtea
荈  chuǎn OC: thjonʔ MC: tɕhiɛn 0 Attributions

Chuǎn 荈 is an alternative word for míng 茗.

    Syntactic words
  • nmtea; particularly: tea plucked late in the season
茗  míng OC: meeŋʔ MC: meŋ 0 Attributions

Míng 茗 is an alternative rare designation for tea, especially referring to tea that is plucked late in the plucking season, according to the Tea Classic.

    Syntactic words
  • nmtea; particularly: tea plucked late in the season

Existing SW for

Here are Syntactic Words already defined in the database: