Where does “昆布茶” come from?

昆布茶 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 茶, from Japanese 葉, from Middle Chinese 葉.

昆布茶 (Japanese): a drink made by chopping kombu, usually into powder, adding it in hot water, and drunk like tea

Definitions

  1. a drink made by chopping kombu, usually into powder, adding it in hot water, and drunk like tea

Ancestry of “昆布茶”, step by step

昆布茶 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 茶

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese茶tea; brown
2Japanese葉leaf, needle, blade; a season, an age: a shorter...
3Middle Chinese葉—

via Japanese 昆布

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese昆布kombu, kelp, tangle, laminara

Words derived from “昆布茶”

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