Meanings
- uncountableA Japanese form of green tea combined with roasted brown rice.
After the trill, one of us creeps downstairs to put on tea and, while the old dog eats her breakfast, arranges the pleasing array of a small, not-too-sweet biscuit or two, a bowl of cut fruit and a huge pot of genmaicha green tea (the fun one with the popped rice in it).
2025 January 27, Alys Fowler, “The one change that worked: I woke up to my phone alarm – until my wife insisted on a new morning routine”, in The Guardian, →ISSN1 more example
Inside the bus on Sunday afternoon, the woman, Arielle Swernoff, 23, of Williamsburg, and her friend, Patrick Rheaume, 33, of Park Slope, accepted the cups of genmaicha tea offered them and embarked on a discussion that included references to the small towns of western Massachusetts, where Mr. Rheaume once worked, and the story of how he became friends with Ms. Swernoff while sharing a can of beer during a train ride in New Jersey.
2015 November 9, Colin Moynihan, “A Vagabond Teahouse Pours Camaraderie, One Free Cup at a Time”, in New York TimesSynonyms: hyeonmi nokcha, popcorn tea
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA Japanese form of green tea combined with roasted brown rice.
Origin
- Japanese玄米茶
- Englishgenmaicha
Borrowed from Japanese 玄米茶 (genmaicha, literally “brown rice tea”).
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Chinese Cantonese 玄米茶
- 玄米茶 (jyun⁴ mai⁵ caa⁴)Japanese form of green tea combined with roasted rice
Chinese Mandarin 玄米茶
- 玄米茶 (xuánmǐchá)Japanese form of green tea combined with roasted rice
Japanese 玄米茶
- 玄米茶 (genmaicha)Japanese form of green tea combined with roasted rice
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genmaicha. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/genmaicha
“genmaicha.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/genmaicha. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “genmaicha,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/genmaicha.
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