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Tea leaves formed into the shape of a brick, used to make beverages like tea, eaten as food or, as in the past, used as a form of currency.

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brick-tea

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Tea leaves formed into the shape of a brick, used to make beverages like tea, eaten as food or, as in the past, used as a form of currency.

Japanese Meaning

茶葉をレンガ状に圧縮・成形した固形の茶。飲料として淹れたり、食用として利用されたりし、過去には通貨代わりとしても使用された。

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In the mountain market, traders often exchanged brick-tea for rice, wool, and other supplies.

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山の市場では、商人たちが米や羊毛、その他の物資と交換するためにレンガ状に固めた茶をよく取引していた。

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Tea leaves formed into the shape of a brick, used to make beverages like tea, eaten as food or, as in the past, used as a form of currency.

"Some of them were men from Ladakh," said Lalun, when the last had gone. "They brought me brick-tea such as the Russians sell, and a tea-urn from Peshawar."

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