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茶 kanji
tea
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
チャサ
Kun readings
NoneWords with 茶
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —茶事tea gathering (for the tea ceremony); some matter concerning tea; family tea gathering held in memory of deceased ancestors
- —赤茶reddish brown
- —茶花seasonal flowers arranged for a tea ceremony; flowers in a tea room
- —芽茶coarse broken tea leaves and buds generated during the sifting process
- —茶寿108th birthday
- —磚茶brick tea
- —団茶cake tea (e.g. Pu-erh tea)
- —闘茶tea-tasting contest
- —茶銘name of a tea blend
- —茶名tea name (name bestowed upon a tea ceremony practitioner)
- —茶利humorous words; funny gesture; funny part (in a puppet show, kabuki, etc.); woman's temple hair
- —茶庭teahouse garden
- —茶商tea seller
- —茶船small boat used for transport on rivers (Edo period); barge; boat used for unloading goods from a large anchored boat; boat with a roof used for boating on a river; small boat selling food and drinks on a river
- —福茶lucky tea (var. of tea made from sea tangle, black soybeans, pepper, pickled plums, etc. and drunk on festive occasions); New Year tea
- —普茶entertaining people by serving tea (esp. in the Obaku school of Zen)
- —茶籠basket for tea ceremony instruments
- —棒茶twig tea; stem tea; kukicha
- —雲茶plain matcha (powdered green tea)
- —茶鼠grey tinged with brown (gray)