white tea
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Calque of Chinese 白茶 (báichá).
Noun
[edit]white tea (countable and uncountable, plural white teas)
- The leaves of a tea plant which have been processed in a manner to let them wilt slightly and lose their "grassy" taste of green tea while undergoing minimal oxidation.
- Coordinate terms: black tea, green tea, yellow tea
- A drink brewed from these tea leaves.
- Coordinate terms: black tea, green tea, yellow tea
- Black tea served with milk.
- Boiled water; hot water served as a hot beverage.
- 2006, Paul Theroux, Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China, →ISBN, page 314:
- The young men from Hong Kong shivered in the compartment like prisoners in a dungeon. They drank hot water. I offered them some of my green tea (Zhulan brand: "A tea from ancient kings for those with kingly tastes") but they said no; they preferred drinking hot water. "White tea," the Chinese call it, bai cha.
Translations
[edit]leaves
drink made with water and leaves
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