IDENTITY
茶chátea
HSK 1Top 1000
CORE MEANING
tea
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.teaHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 艹grass radical (cǎo)
- strokes
- 9
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿳艹人朩
- grass; tea leaves
- person picking leaves
- tree/bush base
USAGE
Common words
绿茶lǜchágreen tea
红茶hóngcháblack tea
茶叶cháyètea leaves
Graded examples
请给我一杯茶。Qǐng gěi wǒ yì bēi chá.HSK1
Please give me a cup of tea.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 荣
LEARNING
Memory aid
A person (人) picking grass (艹) from a bush (朩) — tea.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #1000
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-14
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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