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- Japanese · calque of茶筅
- English todaytea whisk
Calque of Japanese 茶筅 (chasen).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A kitchen utensil shaped and used like a shaving brush but typically made of bamboo rather than badger hair and manipulated above matcha to dissolve it and make it foam. Full definition →
Calque of Japanese 茶筅 (chasen).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.