白茶

Chinese

 
white; empty; blank; bright; clear; plain; pure; gratuitous
tea; tea plant
trad. (白茶)
simp. #(白茶)

Etymology

(bái, “white”) describes the hairs covering the buds of the tea plant, which are used to produce some types of white tea, such as 白毫銀針白毫银针 (“white hair silver needle”).

Pronunciation


Noun

白茶

  1. white tea
  2. (Taipei Min Nan) boiled water; hot water served as a hot beverage.
    • 2006, Theroux, Paul, Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China, →ISBN, page 314:
      The young men from Hong Kong shivered in the compartment like prisoners in a dungeon. They drank hot water. I offered them some of my green tea (Zhulan brand: "A tea from ancient kings for those with kingly tastes") but they said no; they preferred drinking hot water. "White tea," the Chinese call it, bai cha.
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Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 開水 (“boiled water”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 開水
Mandarin Beijing 開水
Taiwan 開水
Tianjin 開水
Jinan 開水
Xi'an 開水
Wuhan 開水
Chengdu 開水
Yangzhou 開水,
Hefei 開水
Malaysia 滾水, 燒水
Cantonese Guangzhou 滾水,
Hong Kong 滾水
Shunde 滾水
Zhongshan (Shiqi) 滾水
Doumen (Shangheng Tanka) 滾水
Taishan 滾水
Kaiping (Chikan) 滾水
Dongguan 滾水
Shaoguan 開水
Yunfu 滾水
Yangjiang 滾水
Xinyi 滾水
Lianjiang 滾水
Nanning 滾水
Gan Nanchang 開水,
Hakka Meixian 滾水
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 滾水
Liudui (S. Sixian) 滾水
Hsinchu (Hailu) 滾水
Dongshi (Dabu) 滾水
Hsinchu (Raoping) 滾水
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 滾水
Jin Taiyuan 開水
Min Bei Jian'ou 滾湯, 開水
Min Dong Fuzhou 開水, 滾湯
Min Nan Xiamen 滾水
Quanzhou 滾水
Zhangzhou 滾水
Taipei 白茶, 滾水
Kaohsiung 滾水
Tainan 滾水
Taichung 滾水
Hsinchu 滾水
Lukang 滾水
Sanxia 滾水
Yilan 滾水
Kinmen 滾水
Magong 滾水
Penang 滾水
Philippines (Manila) 滾水
Chaozhou 滾水
Wu Shanghai 開水, 茶水
Suzhou 開水,
Wenzhou 開水, 茶湯
Xiang Changsha 開水,
Shuangfeng 開水

Japanese

Kanji in this term
しら
Grade: 1
ちゃ
Grade: 2
yutōyomi

Noun

白茶 (hiragana しらちゃ, rōmaji shiracha)

  1. white tea
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