飲茶

Chinese

drink tea; tea plant
trad. (飲茶)
simp. (饮茶)

Pronunciation


Verb

飲⫽茶 (verb-object)

  1. (literary or Cantonese, Hakka) to drink tea
  2. to go yum cha; to have dim sum
    飲茶饮茶 [Cantonese]   heoi3 jam2 caa4 [Jyutping]   to go eat at a dim sum restaurant

Synonyms

  • (to drink tea):

Noun

飲茶

  1. yum cha (Cantonese-style meal, with dim sum and tea)

Descendants

Japanese

Kanji in this term
やむ
Grade: 3
ちゃ
Grade: 2
irregular
Alternative spelling
飮茶 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

Borrowed from Cantonese 飲茶饮茶 (jam2 caa4), as early as 1943.[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) ちゃ [yàmúꜜchà] (Nakadaka – [2])[2]
  • IPA(key): [ja̠mɯ̟ᵝt͡ɕa̠]

Noun

(やむ)(ちゃ) or 飲茶(ヤムチャ) • (yamucha) 

  1. yum cha

References

  1. https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1033841/101
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Noun

飲茶

  1. chữ Hán form of ẩm trà (yum cha).
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