六安瓜片

Lù'ān guāpiàn

noun

Meanings

1 Lu'an Melon Seed, a green tea from Lu'an in western Anhui

Characters

Lu (as in the place name 六安)

Examples

HSK 2

我爸爸最爱喝六安瓜片。

Wǒ bàba zuì ài hē Lù'ān guāpiàn.

My dad's favourite tea is Lu'an Melon Seed.

HSK 7-9

六安瓜片的叶子形状像瓜子。

Lù'ān guāpiàn de yèzi xíngzhuàng xiàng guāzǐ.

The leaves of Lu'an Melon Seed tea are shaped like melon seeds.

Tips

culture

One of China's Ten Famous Teas, and unusual in being made only from single flat leaves, with no buds or stems. The name says what it looks like: 瓜片, "melon-seed flakes".

mistakes

六 is read lù in 六安, not liù.

Stroke Order

六 liù

安 ān

瓜 guā

片 piàn