also: だんちゃ
brick tea
Refers to tea leaves compressed into a brick shape, a traditional form of tea in China and Central Asia.
Brick tea is a traditional form of tea in China.
He bought brick tea in Tibet.
Standard kanji form for brick tea. The character 磚 is a variant of 塼, meaning 'brick'.
Alternate reading with voiced initial, less common than たんちゃ.
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.