"Tea"

Translation: 차

[EquanimousLingo]

Same as 茶 'cha' in Japanese and Mandarin.

[PALewis88]

Yep, a lot of Korean vocab is derived from the Chinese sounds.

[ante36]

About half the vocabulary actually!

[caftancout]

also in arabic its chay شاي
its pronounce like shy in english

[euohoria]

also here in Philippines you know we have tsaa it means tea ;/

[HP1895]

Cha চা in bengali and chai(chay) चाय in Hindi

[carmenmsouza]

So similar to portuguese

[zytiko]

Many languages took the Asian words for tea because we discovered it from them. Just like chai in English is a form of cha when in reality your "Chai tea latte" really means tea tea with milk (latte being the Italian word for milk).

[Shootingstarr]

You can actually tell which way tea came to different parts of the world by their word for it. Chai as used in portuguese, russian and chinese came via india, while the word tea as used in german, spanish, french and english came via indonesia I think.

[Thekrevfox]

You can also see Portuguese influence in Korean and Japanese thanks to missionary presence some hundreds of years ago.

[1vrI4]

나 한국인

[AqsaHassan]

Why is it for both car and tea

[slycordinator]

자동차 = car (or really any vehicle)
차 = a shortened form of the above word

[KTH001]

차 (cha) in Korean and चाय (chai) in hindi XD

[slycordinator]

Every language either has a variation of "cha", "chai", or "te" for tea. And all of those pronunciations come from the same exact Chinese character/word.

[Ed2595]

So "차를 좋아요" could mean either "I like tea" or "I like cars"

I guess both apply.

[HP1895]

It would be 차를 좋아해요 I think. And 차가 촣아요? I'm not a native, it's just what I've understood so far.