茶 chá
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 艹 — grass, weed, plant, herb
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
茶叶
cháyè
tea leaves
Characters in this word
Example phrases
- 茶叶很香。 Cháyè hěn xiāng. The tea leaves smell very good.
- 我买茶叶。 Wǒ mǎi cháyè. I buy tea leaves.
- 茶叶在桌上。 Cháyè zài zhuō shàng. The tea leaves are on the table.