yellow tea

English

Leaves of Chinese yellow tea (黃茶/黄茶)

Brewed Korean yellow tea (황차)

Etymology

Calque of Chinese 黃茶 / 黄茶 (huángchá).

Pronunciation

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Noun

yellow tea (countable and uncountable, plural yellow teas)

1. A Chinese tea produced in a similar manner to green tea but with the added steps of encasing and steaming the tea leaves, resulting in slower oxidisation and a mellower taste
2. A slightly oxidised Korean tea, made in a similar way to oolong or black tea but with less oxidisation

Translations

Chinese drink

• Arabic: شَاي أَصْفَر m (šāy ʔaṣfar)
• Armenian: դեղին թեյ (deġin tʻey)
• Breton: te melen m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 黃茶 / 黄茶 (wong⁴ caa⁴)

  Hakka: vòng-chhà

  Mandarin: 黃茶 / 黄茶 (huángchá)

  Wu: 黄茶

• Czech: žlutý čaj m
• Dutch: gele thee m
• Esperanto: flava teo sg
• Estonian: kollane tee sg
• Finnish: keltainen tee
• French: thé jaune m
• German: gelber Tee m
• Hebrew: תה צהוב m (te tzahóv)
• Indonesian: teh kuning
• Interlingua: the jalne
• Italian: tè giallo m
• Japanese: 黄茶 (きちゃ, kicha; ホァンチャ, hwancha; ファンチャ, fancha)
• Korean: 황차 (hwangcha)
• Latvian: dzeltenā tēja f
• Malay: teh kuning
• Norwegian: gul te m

  Nynorsk: gul te m

• Polish: żółta herbata f
• Portuguese: chá amarelo m
• Romanian: ceai galben n
• Russian: жёлтый чай m (žóltyj čaj)
• Serbo-Croatian: žuti čaj m
• Slovak: žltý čaj m
• Slovene: rumeni čaj m
• Spanish: té amarillo m
• Swedish: gult te n
• Thai: ชาเหลือง (chaalʉ̌ʉang)
• Turkish: sarı çay sg
• Ukrainian: жовтий чай m (žovtyj čaj)
• Welsh: te melyn

Korean drink

• Korean: 황차 (hwangcha)
• Welsh: te melyn

Further reading

• yellow tea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia