茶 - Dong Chinese dictionary

chá

tea

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 余 represents the sound.

Components

艹 Meaning component

cao, cǎo

grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

余 Sound component

yú

茶 and 余 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.茶 /*lˤra/
余 /*la/

Definitions

chá

tea; tea plant; CL:杯[bēi],壺|壶[hú]

Most common words with 茶

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*lˤra	drae	chá	(name of a plant)

Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 16.9310% of movies

1478th most common character in movies

1272nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	9
Unicode	U+8336

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