Tag: tea (2)

Two ways to dunk a biscuit in tea: four seconds later, one has crumbled to bits, and the note says the other tastes better. Either way, it is a 饼干.

饼干 (bǐnggān) means “biscuit,” “cookie” or “cracker.” 饼 is a flat cake and 干 means dry, so it is a “dry cake.”

A packet of biscuits is 一包饼干 (yì bāo bǐnggān); one biscuit is 一块饼干 (yí kuài bǐnggān).

我喜欢把饼干泡在茶里。 — Wǒ xǐhuan bǎ bǐnggān pào zài chá lǐ. — I like dunking biscuits in tea.

你要吃块饼干吗？ — Nǐ yào chī kuài bǐnggān ma? — Would you like a biscuit?

A T-shirt has a teapot printed on it, pouring into a cup: tea on a tee. In Chinese, the drink is 茶.

茶 (chá) means “tea.” The top part, 艹, is the grass radical, a hint that tea is made from leaves. The English word “tea” comes from te, the way 茶 is said in the Hokkien dialect.

To drink tea is 喝茶 (hē chá), and a cup of tea is 一杯茶 (yì bēi chá). Green tea is 绿茶 (lǜchá); black tea is 红茶 (hóngchá), literally “red tea.”

你想喝茶还是咖啡？ — Nǐ xiǎng hē chá háishi kāfēi? — Would you like tea or coffee?

请喝茶。 — Qǐng hē chá. — Please have some tea.