HSK 3.0 Level 2 · Food

红茶 hóngchá “black tea” in Chinese

Traditional 紅茶

What 红茶 means

  1. black tea

Measure word 杯 bēi or 壶 hú · 一杯红茶 yì bēi hóngchá

How to say 红茶

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale红hóng2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale茶chá2nd tone, rising

红茶 in a sentence

  1. 红茶里要加糖吗？

    Hóngchá lǐ yào jiā táng ma?

    Would you like sugar in your black tea?

    Sentence #8891565 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我要一杯冰红茶。

    Wǒ yào yì bēi bīng hóngchá.

    I’d like a glass of iced black tea.

    Sentence #400186 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 喝杯红茶吗？

    Hē bēi hóngchá ma?

    How about a cup of black tea?

    Sentence #338415 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 红茶 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 红 (hóng) with each of its parts in a different colour
红hóngred
  • 纟silk form of 糸 · mìMeaning part
  • 工work · gōngSound part

纟 hints at the meaning (silk); 工 (gōng) hints at the sound. Compare it with hóng.

Memory aidSilk 纟 with 工 (gōng) for the sound: red, the colour of dyed silk.

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 红茶

红 6 strokes · 茶 9 strokes

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

Words related to 红茶

Words with 红

红hóng · red红色hóngsè · red (colour)红绿灯hónglǜdēng · traffic lights西红柿xīhóngshì · tomato分红fēnhóng · to share profits

Words with 茶

茶chá · tea绿茶lǜchá · green tea奶茶nǎichá · milk tea

More words: Food & Drink

鱼yú · fish面条miàntiáo · noodles咖啡kāfēi · coffee饭馆fànguǎn · restaurant绿茶lǜchá · green tea面miàn · noodles奶茶nǎichá · milk tea肉ròu · meat

FAQs

红茶 (hóngchá) means “black tea”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word.
Say it hóngchá: hóng with a 2nd 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, 红茶 is written 紅茶. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 杯 (bēi) or 壶 (hú). For example, one black tea is 一杯红茶 (yì bēi hóngchá).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type hongcha with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 红茶 from the suggestions. Typing hongcha into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
红茶 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.