tea cloth; tea napkin
A small cloth used in tea ceremony to wipe tea bowls, or a similar cloth for kitchen use.
In tea ceremony, you wipe the tea bowl with a tea cloth.
台所で使う茶巾を新しいものに替えた。
I replaced the tea cloth used in the kitchen with a new one.
sushi rice wrapped in a thin omelet
Standard kanji spelling.
Mixed kanji-kana spelling; sometimes used for readability.
From 茶 (tea) + 巾 (cloth). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the word has been used in tea ceremony contexts for centuries.