珍珠奶茶 (zhēnzhūnǎichá): bubble tea

Measure Word

一杯珍珠奶茶 bēi

Meanings

1 bubble tea
2 pearl milk tea
3 boba tea

Characters

Examples

我要一杯珍珠奶茶，半糖少冰。

Wǒ yào yì bēi zhēnzhū nǎichá, bàn táng shǎo bīng.

I'd like a bubble tea, half sugar, less ice.

她每天下午都要点一杯珍珠奶茶。

Tā měitiān xiàwǔ dōu yào diǎn yì bēi zhēnzhū nǎichá.

She orders a bubble tea every afternoon.

珍珠奶茶最早起源于台湾。

Zhēnzhū nǎichá zuì zǎo qǐyuán yú Táiwān.

Bubble tea originated in Taiwan.

Tips

culture

Invented in Taichung in the 1980s. The "pearls" (珍珠) are tapioca balls; the common slang shorthand is 奶茶 or the loanword 波霸/波霸奶茶.

Stroke Order

珍 zhēn

珠 zhū

奶 nǎi

茶 chá

Related Words

丝袜奶茶 sīwànǎichá

Hong Kong-style milk tea ('pantyhose milk tea')

珍珠 zhēnzhū HSK 5 #7,081

guinea fowl chicks / young guinea fowl for breeding

奶茶 nǎichá HSK 3 #31,250

milk tea

甜茶 tiánchá

sweet tea (Tibetan milk-and-sugar tea) / sweet-leaf tea (Rubus suavissimus, 甜叶茶) / Guangxi sweet tea

奶盖 nǎigài

milk foam topping (on bubble tea/cheese tea) / cream cap

奶皮 nǎipí

milk skin (the film that forms on heated milk) / urum (Mongolian clotted milk skin dairy snack, usually called 奶皮子)

普洱茶 pǔěrchá

Pu'er tea / pu-erh tea (fermented tea from Yunnan)

青茶 qīngchá

oolong tea (alternate name for 乌龙茶) / semi-oxidized tea, one of the six classical Chinese tea categories