Where does “煎茶” come from?

煎茶 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 茶, from Japanese 葉, from Middle Chinese 葉.

煎茶 (Japanese): sencha; any medium-grade green tea, as opposed to...

Definitions

  1. sencha; any medium-grade green tea, as opposed to...

Ancestry of “煎茶”, step by step

煎茶 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 煎

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese煎extract essence by boiling

Words derived from “煎茶”

Every word from Middle Chinese 葉 →Every word from Japanese 葉 →Every word from Japanese 茶 →