"茶" meaning in Japanese

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Character

  1. tea Tags: grade-2-kanji, kanji Categories (topical): Beverages
    Sense id: en-茶-ja-character-qfdNHsNu Disambiguation of Beverages: 64 34 3 Categories (other): Grade 2 kanji, Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, Japanese terms with redundant transliterations Derived forms: お茶 (ocha) (ruby: (ちゃ)) (english: tea), 烏竜茶: oolong tea (ūroncha) (ruby: (ウー), (ロン), (ちゃ)), 喫茶店: tearoom (kissaten), café, 紅茶 (kōcha) (ruby: (こう), (ちゃ)) (english: black tea), 古茶 (kocha) (ruby: (), (ちゃ)) (english: tea from last year), 粉茶 (konacha) (ruby: (こな), (ちゃ)) (english: dust tea), 新茶 (shincha) (ruby: (しん), (ちゃ)) (english: new tea of the year), 茶色 (chairo) (ruby: (ちゃ), (いろ)) (english: brown), 茶園 (chaen) (ruby: (ちゃ), (えん)) (english: tea plantation), 茶会 (chakai) (ruby: (ちゃ), (かい)) (english: tea party), 茶器: teaware (chaki) (ruby: (ちゃ), ()), 茶匙 (chasaji) (ruby: (ちゃ), (さじ)) (english: teaspoon), 茶の湯 (chanoyu) (ruby: (ちゃ), ()) (english: tea ceremony), 茶畑 (chabatake) (ruby: (ちゃ), (ばたけ)) (english: tea plantation), 品茶: tea evaluation (hincha), a game of drinking varieties of tea and guessing them correctly, 焙じ茶 (hōjicha) (ruby: (ほう), (ちゃ)) (english: roasted green tea), 抹茶: maccha (matcha), matcha, 無茶 (mucha) (ruby: (), (ちゃ)) (english: reckless), 緑茶 (ryokucha) (ruby: (りょく), (ちゃ)) (english: green tea)

Noun

IPA: [t͡ɕa̠] Forms: [canonical] (ruby: (ちゃ)), cha [romanization]
Etymology: From various lects of Middle Chinese 茶 (MC drae). Compare Mandarin 茶 (chá), Hakka 茶 (chhà), Cantonese 茶 (caa⁴). Etymology templates: {{m|ja|茶|tr=cha}} 茶 (cha), {{align|right|}}, {{der|ja|ltc|-}} Middle Chinese, {{ltc-l|茶}} 茶 (MC drae), {{cog|cmn|茶}} Mandarin 茶 (chá), {{cog|hak|茶|tr=chhà}} Hakka 茶 (chhà), {{cog|yue|茶}} Cantonese 茶 (caa⁴) Head templates: {{ja-noun|ちゃ}} 茶(ちゃ) • (cha)
  1. tea (not used in isolation in modern Japanese)
    Sense id: en-茶-ja-noun-wxBDAkHz Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 18 81 1 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 16 82 2 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 36 62 2
  2. brown Categories (topical): Colors
    Sense id: en-茶-ja-noun-XrZ~n4QJ Disambiguation of Colors: 8 19 73
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: (mei) (ruby: (めい)) [rare] Related terms: 湯: hot water (yu), tea [broadly]

Download JSON data for 茶 meaning in Japanese (5.7kB)

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  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "character",
  "senses": [
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Grade 2 kanji",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant transliterations",
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "64 34 3",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "ja",
          "name": "Beverages",
          "orig": "ja:Beverages",
          "parents": [
            "Drinking",
            "Food and drink",
            "Liquids",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Matter",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental",
            "Chemistry",
            "Nature",
            "Sciences"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "english": "tea",
          "roman": "ocha",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "茶",
              "ちゃ"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "お茶"
        },
        {
          "roman": "ūroncha",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "烏",
              "ウー"
            ],
            [
              "竜",
              "ロン"
            ],
            [
              "茶",
              "ちゃ"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "烏竜茶: oolong tea"
        },
        {
          "roman": "kissaten",
          "word": "喫茶店: tearoom"
        },
        {
          "word": "café"
        },
        {
          "english": "black tea",
          "roman": "kōcha",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "紅",
              "こう"
            ],
            [
              "茶",
              "ちゃ"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "紅茶"
        },
        {
          "english": "tea from last year",
          "roman": "kocha",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "古",
              "こ"
            ],
            [
              "茶",
              "ちゃ"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "古茶"
        },
        {
          "english": "dust tea",
          "roman": "konacha",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "粉",
              "こな"
            ],
            [
              "茶",
              "ちゃ"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "粉茶"
        },
        {
          "english": "new tea of the year",
          "roman": "shincha",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "新",
              "しん"
            ],
            [
              "茶",
              "ちゃ"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "新茶"
        },
        {
          "english": "brown",
          "roman": "chairo",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "茶",
              "ちゃ"
            ],
            [
              "色",
              "いろ"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "茶色"
        },
        {
          "english": "tea plantation",
          "roman": "chaen",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "茶",
              "ちゃ"
            ],
            [
              "園",
              "えん"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "茶園"
        },
        {
          "english": "tea party",
          "roman": "chakai",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "茶",
              "ちゃ"
            ],
            [
              "会",
              "かい"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "茶会"
        },
        {
          "roman": "chaki",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "茶",
              "ちゃ"
            ],
            [
              "器",
              "き"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "茶器: teaware"
        },
        {
          "english": "teaspoon",
          "roman": "chasaji",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "茶",
              "ちゃ"
            ],
            [
              "匙",
              "さじ"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "茶匙"
        },
        {
          "english": "tea ceremony",
          "roman": "chanoyu",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "茶",
              "ちゃ"
            ],
            [
              "湯",
              "ゆ"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "茶の湯"
        },
        {
          "english": "tea plantation",
          "roman": "chabatake",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "茶",
              "ちゃ"
            ],
            [
              "畑",
              "ばたけ"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "茶畑"
        },
        {
          "roman": "hincha",
          "word": "品茶: tea evaluation"
        },
        {
          "word": "a game of drinking varieties of tea and guessing them correctly"
        },
        {
          "english": "roasted green tea",
          "roman": "hōjicha",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "焙",
              "ほう"
            ],
            [
              "茶",
              "ちゃ"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "焙じ茶"
        },
        {
          "roman": "matcha",
          "word": "抹茶: maccha"
        },
        {
          "word": "matcha"
        },
        {
          "english": "reckless",
          "roman": "mucha",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "無",
              "む"
            ],
            [
              "茶",
              "ちゃ"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "無茶"
        },
        {
          "english": "green tea",
          "roman": "ryokucha",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "緑",
              "りょく"
            ],
            [
              "茶",
              "ちゃ"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "緑茶"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "tea"
      ],
      "id": "en-茶-ja-character-qfdNHsNu",
      "links": [
        [
          "tea",
          "tea"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "grade-2-kanji",
        "kanji"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "茶"
}

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          "args": {
            "1": "ain",
            "2": "チャ",
            "bor": "1",
            "tr": "ca"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Ainu: チャ (ca)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Ainu: チャ (ca)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "niv",
            "2": "ча",
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          "expansion": "→ Nivkh: ча (ț’a)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Nivkh: ча (ț’a)"
    }
  ],
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      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "right",
        "2": ""
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "align"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
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        "3": "-"
      },
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      "name": "der"
    },
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      },
      "expansion": "茶 (MC drae)",
      "name": "ltc-l"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cmn",
        "2": "茶"
      },
      "expansion": "Mandarin 茶 (chá)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hak",
        "2": "茶",
        "tr": "chhà"
      },
      "expansion": "Hakka 茶 (chhà)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yue",
        "2": "茶"
      },
      "expansion": "Cantonese 茶 (caa⁴)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From various lects of Middle Chinese 茶 (MC drae). Compare Mandarin 茶 (chá), Hakka 茶 (chhà), Cantonese 茶 (caa⁴).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "茶",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "茶",
          "ちゃ"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cha",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ちゃ"
      },
      "expansion": "茶(ちゃ) • (cha)",
      "name": "ja-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "yu",
      "word": "湯: hot water"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ],
      "word": "tea"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "18 81 1",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "16 82 2",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant wikilinks",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "36 62 2",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "tea (not used in isolation in modern Japanese)"
      ],
      "id": "en-茶-ja-noun-wxBDAkHz",
      "links": [
        [
          "tea",
          "tea"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "8 19 73",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "ja",
          "name": "Colors",
          "orig": "ja:Colors",
          "parents": [
            "Light",
            "Vision",
            "Energy",
            "Senses",
            "Nature",
            "Perception",
            "All topics",
            "Body",
            "Fundamental",
            "Human"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "brown"
      ],
      "id": "en-茶-ja-noun-XrZ~n4QJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "brown",
          "brown"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "ちゃ"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ɕa̠]"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "mei",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "茗",
          "めい"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "茗"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "ja:茶"
  ],
  "word": "茶"
}
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    "Japanese Han characters",
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    "Japanese kanji with goon reading じゃ",
    "Japanese kanji with historical goon reading ぢや",
    "Japanese kanji with kan'on reading た",
    "Japanese kanji with kan'yōon reading ちゃ",
    "Japanese kanji with tōon reading さ",
    "Japanese lemmas",
    "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Japanese nouns",
    "Japanese single-kanji terms",
    "Japanese terms derived from Middle Chinese",
    "Japanese terms spelled with second grade kanji",
    "Japanese terms spelled with 茶",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
    "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
    "Japanese terms with redundant transliterations",
    "Japanese terms written with one Han script character",
    "ja:Beverages",
    "ja:Colors"
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  "derived": [
    {
      "english": "tea",
      "roman": "ocha",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "茶",
          "ちゃ"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "お茶"
    },
    {
      "roman": "ūroncha",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "烏",
          "ウー"
        ],
        [
          "竜",
          "ロン"
        ],
        [
          "茶",
          "ちゃ"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "烏竜茶: oolong tea"
    },
    {
      "roman": "kissaten",
      "word": "喫茶店: tearoom"
    },
    {
      "word": "café"
    },
    {
      "english": "black tea",
      "roman": "kōcha",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "紅",
          "こう"
        ],
        [
          "茶",
          "ちゃ"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "紅茶"
    },
    {
      "english": "tea from last year",
      "roman": "kocha",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "古",
          "こ"
        ],
        [
          "茶",
          "ちゃ"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "古茶"
    },
    {
      "english": "dust tea",
      "roman": "konacha",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "粉",
          "こな"
        ],
        [
          "茶",
          "ちゃ"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "粉茶"
    },
    {
      "english": "new tea of the year",
      "roman": "shincha",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "新",
          "しん"
        ],
        [
          "茶",
          "ちゃ"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "新茶"
    },
    {
      "english": "brown",
      "roman": "chairo",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "茶",
          "ちゃ"
        ],
        [
          "色",
          "いろ"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "茶色"
    },
    {
      "english": "tea plantation",
      "roman": "chaen",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "茶",
          "ちゃ"
        ],
        [
          "園",
          "えん"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "茶園"
    },
    {
      "english": "tea party",
      "roman": "chakai",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "茶",
          "ちゃ"
        ],
        [
          "会",
          "かい"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "茶会"
    },
    {
      "roman": "chaki",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "茶",
          "ちゃ"
        ],
        [
          "器",
          "き"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "茶器: teaware"
    },
    {
      "english": "teaspoon",
      "roman": "chasaji",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "茶",
          "ちゃ"
        ],
        [
          "匙",
          "さじ"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "茶匙"
    },
    {
      "english": "tea ceremony",
      "roman": "chanoyu",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "茶",
          "ちゃ"
        ],
        [
          "湯",
          "ゆ"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "茶の湯"
    },
    {
      "english": "tea plantation",
      "roman": "chabatake",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "茶",
          "ちゃ"
        ],
        [
          "畑",
          "ばたけ"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "茶畑"
    },
    {
      "roman": "hincha",
      "word": "品茶: tea evaluation"
    },
    {
      "word": "a game of drinking varieties of tea and guessing them correctly"
    },
    {
      "english": "roasted green tea",
      "roman": "hōjicha",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "焙",
          "ほう"
        ],
        [
          "茶",
          "ちゃ"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "焙じ茶"
    },
    {
      "roman": "matcha",
      "word": "抹茶: maccha"
    },
    {
      "word": "matcha"
    },
    {
      "english": "reckless",
      "roman": "mucha",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "無",
          "む"
        ],
        [
          "茶",
          "ちゃ"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "無茶"
    },
    {
      "english": "green tea",
      "roman": "ryokucha",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "緑",
          "りょく"
        ],
        [
          "茶",
          "ちゃ"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "緑茶"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "character",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "tea"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tea",
          "tea"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "grade-2-kanji",
        "kanji"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "茶"
}

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    "Japanese terms derived from Middle Chinese",
    "Japanese terms spelled with second grade kanji",
    "Japanese terms spelled with 茶",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
    "Japanese terms written with one Han script character",
    "ja:Beverages",
    "ja:Colors"
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  "descendants": [
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          "args": {
            "1": "ain",
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            "bor": "1",
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          },
          "expansion": "→ Ainu: チャ (ca)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Ainu: チャ (ca)"
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "niv",
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      ],
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      "expansion": "Middle Chinese",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "茶"
      },
      "expansion": "茶 (MC drae)",
      "name": "ltc-l"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cmn",
        "2": "茶"
      },
      "expansion": "Mandarin 茶 (chá)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hak",
        "2": "茶",
        "tr": "chhà"
      },
      "expansion": "Hakka 茶 (chhà)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "yue",
        "2": "茶"
      },
      "expansion": "Cantonese 茶 (caa⁴)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From various lects of Middle Chinese 茶 (MC drae). Compare Mandarin 茶 (chá), Hakka 茶 (chhà), Cantonese 茶 (caa⁴).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "茶",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "茶",
          "ちゃ"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cha",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ちゃ"
      },
      "expansion": "茶(ちゃ) • (cha)",
      "name": "ja-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "roman": "yu",
      "word": "湯: hot water"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ],
      "word": "tea"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "tea (not used in isolation in modern Japanese)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tea",
          "tea"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "brown"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "brown",
          "brown"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "ちゃ"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡ɕa̠]"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "mei",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "茗",
          "めい"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "茗"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "ja:茶"
  ],
  "word": "茶"
}
{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "茶"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "茶",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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