Tea characters — free printable worksheets

For the teacher

What a learner should be able to do afterwards

• Write 茶 and take it apart into grass, person and tree
• Name the vessels: 杯 and 壶
• Use 喝 with 茶 and 水 in a short sentence

Running it

• 茶 is 艹 over 人 over 木 — grass above, a person between, a tree below. Whatever its real history, the picture is a person among the tea bushes, and it is the reason this character is remembered after one sitting.
• 喝 is twelve strokes and has 口 on the left, the mouth. Every character on this sheet that involves drinking or eating carries it, which is the most useful radical a beginner can learn early.
• 青 will raise a hand. It covers both blue and green, and in 青茶 it is neither — it is the tea. 'The old word for the whole range' is a true and sufficient answer.
• This one works well with actual tea on the table. It is also the pack adults are most likely to finish, which matters more than it sounds.

These notes were written from general teaching practice; not yet reviewed by a classroom teacher. If you teach and something here is wrong, we would rather hear it than not.