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Translation chadan (Cha Dan) = (茶蛋)[2,4] same as chaye dan; also, (茶胆 or 茶膽)[2,3] literally Tea Gallbladder: in Chaozhou gongfu, the tightly packed bolus of tea leaves, with interlocked whole leaves immobilizing the bitter broken leaves at the center or bottom of the pot, by analogy with the bitter bile in a real gallbladder; also, (茶丹)[2,1] literally Tea Pellet: a ball of compressed tea sized so that one unit is an appropriate size for steeping
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