Chinese · Word Attested HSK 1

茶

chá

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Both English Tiếng Việt

Meaning · English

Tea — the drink and the plant. 喝茶 is 'to drink tea'; kinds are named by colour or flower: 红茶 black tea (literally 'red tea'), 绿茶 green tea, 花茶 scented tea.

Nghĩa · Tiếng Việt

Trà, chè: cây chè và thứ nước pha từ lá của nó. 喝茶 là uống trà; tên các loại trà ghép thêm màu hoặc hoa: 红茶 (hồng trà, tức trà đen), 绿茶 (trà xanh), 花茶 (trà ướp hoa).

NounRegister: neutral

Examples

中国人很喜欢喝茶。Zhōngguórén hěn xǐhuan hē chá.Chinese people love drinking tea.

Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check

Sources & notes

Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “trà” (tra-nam). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.

Equivalents & related

Hán-Việt cognate trà Tea — the standard word nationwide and the only everyday word in the South; Northern colloquial speech often says chè. Tiếng Việt Same meaning · other region chè Tea, the drink or the plant — everyday Northern usage; in the South tea is trà, and chè there means a sweet dessert soup instead. Tiếng Việt · via trà

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Common questions

What does “茶” mean?

Tea — the drink and the plant. 喝茶 is 'to drink tea'; kinds are named by colour or flower: 红茶 black tea (literally 'red tea'), 绿茶 green tea, 花茶 scented tea.

Is “茶” formal or informal?

茶 is generally neutral.

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