茶馆儿
cháguǎn r · HSK 7
a teashop
🍵🏠 tea + hall + er suffix = a cozy little teahouse
茶 (chá) is tea, 馆 (guǎn) is a hall or establishment, and the 儿 (r) suffix adds that casual Beijing flavor — like saying 'a little teashop' with a warm, familiar feel.
茶 — grass radical 艹 + 余 (phonetic)
茶 combines the grass radical 艹, indicating a plant, with 余 serving as the phonetic component. It originally derived from the older character 荼, which referred broadly to bitter herbs; a stroke was dropped during the Tang dynasty to distinguish the tea plant specifically. Today it means tea.