caa4 sat1茶室
Jyutpingcaa4 sat1
Yalechàh sāt
Definition
Teahouse; a place where tea and light refreshments are served.
colloquialfoodplaces
How it's used
Refers specifically to a traditional establishment serving tea and light snacks, often with a nostalgic or old-fashioned atmosphere. While it shares the same characters as the Mandarin term for a cafeteria or canteen, in Hong Kong it carries a more distinct cultural connotation of a place for leisure and social gathering rather than just a quick meal. It is less common in modern urban planning than terms like 冰室 or 茶餐廳.
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gaan1間gānExamples
Let's go to that tea house for a cup of tea later.
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Common mistake
Do not confuse this with 茶餐廳, which is a modern Hong Kong style cafe serving a wide variety of hot meals, whereas a 茶室 is typically more focused on tea and traditional snacks.
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Grammar guides
- Directional complementsThe small words added after a verb to show direction of movement, like up, down, out, in, and back. Common in everyday Cantonese.
- DemonstrativesThis and that with 呢 and 嗰, the personal pronouns, and how 哋 turns I, you, and he into we, you all, and they.
- Resultative complementsSticking a result word onto a verb to show how it turned out, like eat until full or look and find. A productive everyday pattern.
