Sejak

"Jakseol-cha" redirects here and is not to be confused with jaekseol-cha.

Sejak (Korean: 세작; Hanja: 細雀; lit. "thin sparrow"), also called dumul-cha (두물차; lit. "second flush tea"),^[1] refers to nokcha (green tea) made of young, tender leaves and buds hand-plucked after gogu ("grain rain", 20–21 April) but before ipha ("advent of summer", 5–6 May).^[2][3] Also called jakseol (작설; 雀舌; lit. "sparrow tongue") as the tea leaves are plucked when they are about the size of a sparrow's tongue,^[2] sejak is best steeped at a temperature of 60–70 °C (140–158 °F).^[4]

Sejak

Sejak green tea from Hadong County
Type	Nokcha (green tea)
Country of origin	Korea
Ingredients	Second-flush tea leaves

Korean name
Hangul	세작
Hanja	細雀
Revised Romanization	sejak
McCune–Reischauer	sejak
IPA	[se.dʑak̚]
Alternative name
Hangul	두물차
Hanja	두물茶
Revised Romanization	dumul-cha
McCune–Reischauer	tumul-ch'a
IPA	[tu.mul.tɕʰa]
Epithet
Hangul	작설
Hanja	雀舌
Revised Romanization	jakseol
McCune–Reischauer	chaksŏl
IPA	[tɕak.s͈ʌl]