HSK 3.0 Level 2 · Food

绿茶 lǜchá “green tea” in Chinese

Traditional 綠茶

What 绿茶 means

  1. green tea

How to say 绿茶

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale绿lǜ4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale茶chá2nd tone, rising

绿茶 in a sentence

  1. 我不喜欢绿茶。

    Wǒ bù xǐhuan lǜchá.

    I don’t like green tea.

    Sentence #812718 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 你喝绿茶吗？

    Nǐ hē lǜchá ma?

    Do you drink green tea?

    Sentence #2782917 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我不能喝绿茶。

    Wǒ bùnéng hē lǜchá.

    I can’t drink green tea.

    Sentence #13544369 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 绿茶 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 绿 (lǜ) with each of its parts in a different colour
绿lǜgreen
  • 纟silk form of 糸 · mìMeaning part
  • 录to copy · lùSound part

纟 hints at the meaning (silk); 录 (lù) hints at the sound. Compare it with lǜ.

The character 茶 (chá) with each of its parts in a different colour
茶chátea
  • 艹grass form of 艸 · cǎoMeaning part
  • 人person · rén
  • 木tree · mù

Memory aidA plant 艹 over a person 人 and a tree 木: tea leaves picked from the bush.

How to write 绿茶

绿 11 strokes · 茶 9 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

绿茶 (lǜchá) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 绿茶 (lǜchá). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 绿茶

Words with 绿

绿色lǜsè · green绿lǜ · green红绿灯hónglǜdēng · traffic lights

Words with 茶

茶chá · tea红茶hóngchá · black tea奶茶nǎichá · milk tea

More words: Food & Drink

面条miàntiáo · noodles咖啡kāfēi · coffee饭馆fànguǎn · restaurant红茶hóngchá · black tea面miàn · noodles奶茶nǎichá · milk tea肉ròu · meat饱bǎo · eat until full

FAQs

绿茶 (lǜchá) means “green tea”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word.
Say it lǜchá: lǜ with a 4th tone, then chá with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 绿茶 is written 綠茶. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type lucha with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 绿茶 from the suggestions. Typing lucha into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
绿茶 is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 2 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.