Chinese Etymology 茶

Chinese Etymology 茶 - "Tea"

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Greetings Scholars! Hope you have a cup of hot tea at the ready 'cause that's what we're talking about today!
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Clips Used:
Avatar the Last Airbender
Music used:
Purple Bamboo Tune - Chinese Classical Folk Music
Brontosaurus - Lost Eden • Lost Eden Soundtrack U...
Dance of the Yi People - • Dance Of The Yi People
Pi Pa Village - ERotMK
Dream of Red Chamber - Chinese Classical Folk Music
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:28 The Tea Myth
01:00 Etymology
03:55 End
#chineselanguage #chineseetymology #chineseculture #chinesecharacters

Пікірлер: 62

@roycosta5938 2 ай бұрын

In Southern Min (Hokkien specifically) we pronounce it as tê [te˨˧], not tì [ti˥˦].

@Asphyx12 2 ай бұрын

Ah that's why in indonesia it's called teh?

@SwedishSinologyNerd 2 ай бұрын

Thank you! I couldn’t find a sound example so I just had to wing the pronunciation lol

@michaelyus 2 ай бұрын

@@SwedishSinologyNerd Forvo has some good recordings; at the moment [Apr 2024] there are two for Min Nan, both from the Hokkien branch. The MOEDict of Taiwan also has 台灣閩南話 recordings for all its major lexemes.

@christopherellis2663 2 ай бұрын

As in French té

@SwedishSinologyNerd 2 ай бұрын

Awesome! I'll make sure to consult them in the future when I bring up Min Nan words! I've been meaning to learn at least one of the Min dialects (probably one of the Fuzhou ones, y'know, for buying tea xD) but I think I hould stick with getting Cantonese down pat first ^^;;;

@dariusgoh5314 15 күн бұрын

This is amazing! Just discovered your channel! Chinese etymologies not so often covered on KZfaq… a shame considered the unique aspect of the writing character etymologies

@stoopidphersun7436 2 ай бұрын

Criminally underrated linguistics youtuber

@mahakalabhairava9950 2 ай бұрын

Sla means lettuce in Dutch

@Soilad 2 ай бұрын

Lettuce, the ultimate form of tea

@6Uncles 2 ай бұрын

@@Soilad lettuce raise our cups, and sip dem teaz

@kamalkrishnabaral 2 ай бұрын

Love some tea for all!

@desmondtanenwei 2 ай бұрын

I literally ran in the room to look at this video.

@desmondtanenwei 2 ай бұрын

Btw I think you should make the next video about chu nom

@SwedishSinologyNerd 2 ай бұрын

I can't promise the next video will be, but I have a "general info" vid about Chu Nom in the works (history, particularities, some cool Chu Nom exlusive characters etc). If there's enough interest (and I can get some help with the readings, because my Viet is horrendous, and I keep bouncing between Northern and Southern dialects lol) I'd like to do a series on the script, like a character primer for vietnamese speakers who want to write in traditional script, either for art or as actual communication, but that's a way off...

@lyuktentiok 2 ай бұрын

Can't wait to the explanation 🎇

@danielfernandezpeinado6294 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for these rich and insightful videos!

@SwedishSinologyNerd 2 ай бұрын

And thank YOU for watching!

@CornelisquandaleHigglebottom 2 ай бұрын

Im Vietnamese but I'm obsessed with chinese characters, my grandfather has fulu in my house, and that's where the interest came from, it got to the point where I knew how to read every character in the altar, (In sino-vietnamese spellings, of course), so this is literally the perfect channel for me! Anyways, what did you do in the last 11 months?

@SwedishSinologyNerd 2 ай бұрын

Cảm ơn! I totally get the feeling, I’ve been trying to learn tiếng việt (vying with Cantonese, Zhuang, Manchu, Japanese and Mongol for my time lol) since I found out that chữ nôm is a thing xD And well, just like Kong Yiji I found out that classical learning doesn’t pay the bills, so I’ve been working, looking for a job that doesn’t make me wanna Minecraft myself etc…

@6Uncles 2 ай бұрын

it's so nice, eh, when you can read all the characters that are around your house, that you couldn't read before when you were young

@6Uncles 2 ай бұрын

@@SwedishSinologyNerd definitely appreciate the chữ nôm drop in this video! You should go into "Cảm ơn" sino origins. I've been been racking my brain recently trying to figure out if "thấy" is related to 睇 (Cantonese: tai2) or not, because they sound similar and similar meanings. Wiktionary references it, but states that it is just a non-sinoviet reading of 視. And was told that 睇 was more of a modern Cantonese standard

@CornelisquandaleHigglebottom 2 ай бұрын

I was so used in writing chinese that I started inventing new characters (Nôm) randomly out of boredom

@CornelisquandaleHigglebottom 2 ай бұрын

Yet I didn't know chinese

@JasielMontes14 2 ай бұрын

gracias!

@guilhermea.l.60 2 ай бұрын

Great video!!

@SrirachaChugChallenge747-jq7by 2 ай бұрын

我愛華語

@gabrielamermon6778 2 ай бұрын

As a person who is currently learning Chinese, thank you! I feel like understanding Hanzi helps remember it, plus it's very interesting in itself:)

@SwedishSinologyNerd 2 ай бұрын

You're welcome, I'm happy you enjoy my videos! Feel free to suggest any characters I can talk about next (I have a bucket list of sorts, but I like to hear people's suggestions) ^^

@gabrielamermon6778 Ай бұрын

@@SwedishSinologyNerd any would be interesting, but some like 些，那，这，老，的，菜, 你 and most of the early education ones would be of great help as well:) I don't know which ones have most interesting "backstories"

@SwedishSinologyNerd Ай бұрын

@@gabrielamermon6778 lol I’ve been working on a video about 你 for a few weeks now, Chinese pronouns are a mess xD The other ones will likely all feature at some point as well, possible exception is 些

@gabrielamermon6778 Ай бұрын

@@SwedishSinologyNerd amazing, can't wait then!

@Muself2 2 ай бұрын

Thanks

@justaregularslitherwing 2 ай бұрын

Can't wait to dive into how you explain this what seems to be a common phonosemantic character!!! :p

@SwedishSinologyNerd 2 ай бұрын

Heh, well I had to add some stuff to make it a full video! Either way I hope you'll enjoy it!

@wktorzjawinski2052 2 ай бұрын

Ref.: In *Asterix in Britain* ( 🇨🇵 *Astérix chez les Bretons*) - the cartoon book (1965-1970), animatation (1986) &nd later the movie *Astérix et Obélix : Au service de sa Majesté*, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 *Asterix & Obelix: On Her Majesty’s Service*, 2012) presented parodical introduction these herbs. } Greetings from Polen @@SwedishSinologyNerd )

@SwedishSinologyNerd 2 ай бұрын

@@wktorzjawinski2052 It’s one of my favourite Asterix movies lol

@rockethola3515 2 ай бұрын

Cha for the algorithm

@SwedishSinologyNerd 2 ай бұрын

Leaves for the leaf throne! xD

@crisgeeplease 2 ай бұрын

Legend

@iron4517 2 ай бұрын

Interesting

@6Uncles 2 ай бұрын

sipping some 普洱茶 while I watcht this, heh

@SwedishSinologyNerd 2 ай бұрын

熟普還是生普？

@6Uncles 2 ай бұрын

@@SwedishSinologyNerd dunno, lol. It's some powdered kind from a western company -_-

@SwedishSinologyNerd 2 ай бұрын

@@6Uncles Oh. My condolences...

@6Uncles Ай бұрын

@@SwedishSinologyNerd learned it was 熟普洱茶! Powdered product from Matcha Ninja

@amagpie8239 2 ай бұрын

Väldigt intressant! Jag är också intresserad av det Kinesiska språket och dess historia. Just nu pluggar jag Kinesiska i 長春, 吉林省.

@SwedishSinologyNerd 2 ай бұрын

Tack så mycket! Lite lustigt att din profilbild är en skata och du pluggar i 長春. Tidigare hette staden Mukden och var Manchurernas hemort, Manchurerna hade skatan som sitt totem, eftersom de ansåg sig härstamma från en gudinna i skathamn xD

@amagpie8239 8 күн бұрын

Wow, intressant! Jag hade ingen aning att skatan hade en sån viktig symbolik för dem. Men är det inte 瀋陽 som brukade kallas Mukden?