Kanji1 / 10
座 kanji
squat, seat, cushion, gathering, sit
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
ザ
Kun readings
すわる
Words with 座
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —座すto sit; to squat; to be implicated
- —座面seat (of a chair)
- —岩座stone-like socle (used as the base for a Buddhist statue)
- —座屈buckling
- —宮座organization of shrine parishioners in a hamlet; parish guild
- —座蒲round cushion used for Zen meditation (traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves)
- —後座rear part of a stage (where musicians are seated)
- —後座recoil (of a gun)
- —後座main performance; headliner; latter half of a formal tea ceremony (in which the tea is actually consumed)
- —初座first half of a tea ceremony (in which the charcoal is set and light food served)
- —割座sitting posture with the legs bent back on each side; Japanese traditional informal female sitting posture; w-sitting; reverse tailor style sitting
- —座法(formal) ways of sitting
- —楽座free markets and open guilds; way of sitting on the ground with the sole of both feet pressed together
- —神座place where there is a god or spirit; place containing the sacred object of a shrine
- —金座Edo-period gold mint
- —典座one of the six administrators of a Zen temple (in charge of food and other matters)
- —転座translocation
- —常座upstage right (on a noh stage)
- —笛座flute-player seating area (noh), behind upstage left
- —脇座downstage left (in noh), where the secondary actor is often seated