燒茶

Chinese

		to burn; to cook; to stew to burn; to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; fever	tea; tea plant
trad. (燒茶)		燒	茶
simp. (烧茶)		烧	茶

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shāochá

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄠ ㄔㄚˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): siu¹ caa⁴
• Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ¹sau ⁶zo / ¹sau ²zo

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shāochá
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄠ ㄔㄚˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shaochá
    • Wade–Giles: shao¹-chʻa²
    • Yale: shāu-chá
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shauchar
    • Palladius: шаоча (šaoča)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɑʊ̯⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰä³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: siu¹ caa⁴
    • Yale: sīu chàh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: siu¹ tsaa⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: xiu¹ ca⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siːu̯⁵⁵ t͡sʰaː²¹/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ¹sau ⁶zo
    • MiniDict: sau^平 zo^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹sau ³zo
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /sɔ⁵³ zo²³/
  • (Northern: Suzhou)
    • Wugniu: ¹sau ²zo
    • MiniDict: sau^平 zo^平
    • Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /sæ⁴⁴ zo²²³/

Verb

燒茶

1. to make tea; to brew tea
2. (Northern Wu) to boil (drinking) water

Synonyms

• 泡茶 (pàochá)
• 沏茶 (qīchá)
• 烹茶 (pēngchá)
• 煮茶
• 沖茶／冲茶 (chōngchá)
• 煎茶 (jiānchá)
• 瀹茗 (yuèmíng)
• (Cantonese) 焗茶, 煲茶
• (Teochew) 釃茶／酾茶

• (to boil water):

Dialectal synonyms of 燒水 (“to boil water”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		燒水
Northeastern Mandarin	Taiwan	燒水
	Malaysia	煮水
	Singapore	煮水
Southwestern Mandarin	Guilin	燒水
Cantonese	Hong Kong	煲水
	Singapore (Guangfu)	煲水
Southern Min	Xiamen	燃水
	Quanzhou	燃水
	Zhangzhou	燃水
	Taipei	燃水 GT
	Penang (Hokkien)	煎水, 燃水
	Singapore (Hokkien)	燃水
	Jieyang	炰水, 煎水, 燃水
	Singapore (Teochew)	燃水
	Wenchang	煲水
	Singapore (Hainanese)	煲水
Wu	Shanghai	燒茶 of drinking water, 燒水
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)