番茶

Japanese

Kanji in this term
番	茶
ばん Grade: 2	ちゃ Grade: 2
kan'yōon

番茶, bancha leaves and stems

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bã̠ɲ̟t͡ɕa̠]

Noun

番(ばん)茶(ちゃ) • (bancha) 

1. bancha, low-grade tea, coarse tea

Usage notes

Bancha often consists of leaves or stems leftover after harvesting higher quality sencha (煎茶) tea, or sometimes of leaves or stems cut during pruning of tea plants. The tea is sometimes roasted to make hojicha (焙じ茶) or combined with toasted rice to make genmaicha (玄米茶).

See also

• 茎茶(くきちゃ) (kukicha, “kukicha, tea made from stems”)
• 棒茶(ぼうちゃ) (bōcha, “kukicha; (Toyama) bancha”)
• 番茶 on the Japanese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ja