ChaYe means Tea not Cha
Lew,
I'll respond to you. You,et al,say it is a different Ye. Plug this
string into Google to see the companies that use ChaYe in their name:
茶叶公司
It means Cha(Ye) GongSi or Tea(Leaf) Company. The Ye second character
means leaf and is 'silent'. If the use were limited I would agree it
has an alternate meaning like industry or dry leaf as suggested. One
of my dictionaries says ChaYe means tea as the first translation, and
tea leaves as the second. Chinese meaning is taken from the usage so
I don't see why ChaYe would be required in a company name versus Cha
or even on a menu.
Jim
On Apr 9, 12:26*pm, Lewis Perin wrote:
In addition to Phyll's point about Cha Ye referring to the leaves as
opposed to the beverage, there's also another word Ye having nothing
to do with leaves. *When it's used in the name of a tea company, Cha
Ye more or less means "tea company", not "tea leaves".
/Lew
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