Jan 11, 2018 · The Chinese character for tea, 茶, is pronounced differently by different varieties of Chinese, though it is written the same in them all. In today’s Mandarin, it is chá .

Sep 25, 2018 · You can see where tea is called chai and where tea is called tea on an interactive map created by the World Atlas of Language Structures. Their Tea Map uses blue and red …

Apr 26, 2021 · This map is better and more detailed. Includes the third Sinitic variant, the Wu term zo. Shows that Japan and Korea sometimes, though rarely, use terms related to tê. Fixes …

The third form chai (meaning "spiced tea") originated from a northern Chinese pronunciation of cha, which travelled overland to Central Asia and Persia where it picked up a Persian ending …

Nov 8, 2019 · You can see the glob­al spread of tea, tee, thé, chai, chay, cha, or what­ev­er you call it in the map above, recent­ly tweet­ed out by East Asia his­to­ri­an Nick Kapur. (You may …

Oct 1, 2018 · The effect is that inwards most languages roughly the basis the give-and-take for 'tea' sounds something similar 'chai' or 'tea'. You tin come across where tea is called chai in …

Apr 14, 2022 · This map shows the phenomena of the movement of tea, and what it's called around the globe. Around the world, there are mainly 2 root words for tea, 'te' and 'cha', and …

Oct 11, 2018 · This character is pronounced in most of China as "chá" but in the coastal provinces where the Dutch traded, it is pronounced "te". The Dutch brought tea back to Europe on ships …

Aug 3, 2014 · The map below shows the chai/tea isogloss dividing Europe, with languages in the west using words like "tea" and languages in the east using words like "chai". In other words …

Apr 19, 2020 · "If tea spread to your country by sea, you call it ‘tea’. If by land, you call it chai. (*This is because the ports of Fujian and Taiwan use the coastal pronunciation ‘te’, whereas …