| 茶 |
| 1. tea (plant, leaves) | |
| 種zhòng 茶 (zhòng chá) - to grow tea | |
| 2. tea (beverage made by infusing tea leaves in hot water) | |
| 綠茶 (lǜchá) - green tea | |
| 沏茶 (qīchá) - to make tea | |
| 一 杯 茶 (yī bēi chá) - a cup of tea | |
| 3. certain kinds of beverage or liquid food | |
| 涼茶 (liángchá) - Chinese herb tea | |
| 冬瓜茶 (dōngguāchá) - winter melon punch | |
| 杏仁茶 (xìngrénchá) - almond tea | |
| 4. Chinese medicine | |
| 午時茶 (wǔshíchá) - Afternoon Tea | |
| 5. yum cha | |
| 早茶 (zǎochá) - morning yum cha | |
| 去 茶樓 飲 餐 茶 - to go yumcha at a dim sum restaurant | |
| 6. (obsolete) a moment (the time it takes to drink a cup of tea) | |
| 7. (dialectal Mandarin, Cantonese, Gan, Xiang, Wu) boiled or boiling water | |
