砖茶

磚茶

zhuānchá

noun

Measure Word

一块砖茶 kuài

Meanings

1 brick tea

Characters

Examples

HSK 6

砖茶是压成砖块的茶叶，方便运输。

Zhuānchá shì yāchéng zhuānkuài de cháyè, fāngbiàn yùnshū.

Brick tea is tea pressed into bricks, which makes it easy to transport.

HSK 7-9

藏族人常用砖茶来打酥油茶。

Zàngzú rén cháng yòng zhuānchá lái dǎ sūyóuchá.

Tibetans often use brick tea to make butter tea.

Tips

culture

Pressed hard so that it kept for months on the road, brick tea went by caravan along the 茶马古道 to Tibet and Mongolia, and on the steppe the blocks were even used as money.

Stroke Order

砖 zhuān

茶 chá