compressed tea in chinese

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Jim

bbh2o wrote:

Do you really want compressed tea no matter what k> 浓缩茶 for the simplified

I think that will be more likely to get you concentrated tea drinks. If you found that Chinese phrase by typing English (or Spanish?) into Babelfish, you can't really expect idiomatic Chinese.

If you want the Chinese for common forms of compressed Pu'er, you could type them into Babelcarp. Try tuocha, bingcha, and fangcha.

/Lew

Thanks for the plug, Jim, but the original poster should be warned that English words like cake, brick, or bowl aren't defined in Babelcarp; their Chinese equivalents are.

/Lew

Well, change it ;-). Anyone could as well use Zhongwen for the Pinyin or English but how many characters would you get for cake,brick,bowl not related to Puer?

Jim

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Mike

Thanks a lot Mike, I´ll definetely print it out and take it to China the next time around. Two terms I´m missing (used them a lot in China) are: sample (hehe) and good/best quality (available). Mind adding them ?

Karsten

Mike Petro schrieb:

Hi Karsten,

Great suggestions, I will add them both soon. I will also format a special "printer friendly" edition.

Another addition I will make soon, suggested by a friend of mine, will be recordings of the pronunciation of each term. I am leaning towards using mp3s as that way you could put them on an Ipod or whatever.

Mike

China uses tea grades: ¼‰T ¼¶S ji2 grade

Sample is different for amount or taste. I dug around for these two so Danny let me know if there is something better when refering to samples of tea.

There are qualitative terms for puer such as GongTing,NuEr,TouDeng which indicate better grade of leaves.

Jim

snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com wrote:

Oops for those keeping score everything is correct but swap the PinYin terms:

yang4 is a sample amount. pin3 is a taste sample.

Sorry, Jim

Space Cowboy wrote:

Yes, there are words to mean compressed tea in Chinese. But the translation below is incorrect. I wouldn't trust bablefish or any online translator. They all give really muddled results.

This actually means "concentrated tea" or "condensed tea".

For compressed tea, you want these characters: 紧压茶

In Pinyin it's jin ya cha.

hola,

black/red, or Pu'er), or do you want compressed Pu'er?

yes, i know translators are only a way to remember things you previously know, and to guess something if you don't absolutely have a clue, sometimes is a bit useful, but language is a bit more complex and rich than only few words put together [anyone could notice sometimes i am translating -mentally, but translating- from spanish ;)]

and chinese must be more complex even!

so, i was asking here, because although babelcarp is a incredible tool for introducing in chinese tea world, doesn't translate from english [nothign to say about that, it's your site, you decide the contents], so i didn't use it, i couldn't use if i even don't know what is bingcha ;). well, i must know for the many times these words are mentioned here, but i think having a table like mike petro did at hand is something i must do

and as i dont't know any of these compressed teas, any of them puer or not will do, at least as a contact. first step will be ask for any compressed tea, and then ask which are they, but i only find jasmine teas in all kind of tins, gunpowder, ti kuan yin, and a puer tuocha in bags at 1 euro,

anyway, thanks all a lot for all the knowledge shown here ;))

regards from madrid, bonifacio barrio hijosa

Excuse my pidgin mandarin, but you could try :

good = hao de best = zui hao de

and you were right about sample, 'he he' (pronounced hur hur) should do it if you point to the tea and to your mouth alternatively