tea whisk

English

A tea whisk.

Alternative forms

tea-whisk, teawhisk

Etymology

Calque of Japanese 茶筅 (chasen).

Noun

tea whisk (plural tea whisks)

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.
Synonyms: chasen, matcha whisk, (rare, in Chinese historiography) chaxian

Translations

utensil for tea

Finnish: teevispilä
German: Teebesen m, Matchabesen m
Japanese: 茶筅 (ja) (chasen)
Russian: бамбу́ковый ве́нчик m (bambúkovyj vénčik), ве́нчик для ма́тча m (vénčik dlja mátča)
Swedish: please add this translation if you can

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