also: だんちゃ
noun
brick tea
Refers to tea leaves compressed into a brick shape, a traditional form of tea in China and Central Asia.
磚茶は中国の伝統的なお茶の形です。
Brick tea is a traditional form of tea in China.
彼はチベットで磚茶を買った。
He bought brick tea in Tibet.
From Chinese 磚茶 (zhuānchá), literally 'brick tea'. The Japanese reading たんちゃ is the on'yomi of the characters, with a rare voiced variant だんちゃ.