茶
부수: 艹
획수: 10획
茶 has the meanings ‘tea plant’, and ‘tea’.
茶 = 艹 + 
X = semantic + phonetic
• 艹 depicts plants and means ‘vegetation’. It is the component form of 艸 which depicts two plants 屮.
• 
depicts a thorny tree. It is used phonetically in 茶 to reference ‘bitter (tea) leaves’.
Evolution:
茶 = ’tea plant’ ➔ ’tea’
Mnemonic
Imagine a farmer walking through a tea field. She stops at a certain bush 茶 and picks some leaves from the top 艹 to smell and inspect the fragrance.
Vocab
| 茶房 | 다방 | tearoom, coffee shop |
| 茶果 | 다과 | tea and cakes; light refreshment |
| 茶盞 | 찻잔 | teacup |
| 茶具 | 다구 | tea utensils |
| 紅茶 | 홍차 | black tea |
| 柚子茶 | 유자차 | citrus tea |
| 茶飯事 | 다반사 | everyday occurrence |
| 茶褐色 | 다갈색 | a dark brown colour |
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Bibliography
— Grant, B.K. (1982). A Guide To Korean Characters: Reading and Writing Hangul and Hanja, [s.v. 852]. Seoul: Hollym.
— Henshall, K.G. (1998). A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters, [s.v. 171]. Singapore: Tuttle Publishing.
— Outlier Dictionary of Chinese Characters, [s.v. 茶, 艹, 余].
— Seely, C., Henshall, K.G., & Fan, J. (2016). The Complete Guide to Japanese Kanji: Remembering and Understanding the 2,136 Standard Japanese Characters, [s.v. 187]. Singapore: Tuttle Publishing.