Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
grass 艸 (艹)
Parts:
tea
On:
チャ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N4
1116 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 茶 【チャ】 tea, tea plant (Camellia sinensis), tea preparation, making tea, brown, mockery
  • 茶色 【チャイロ】 brown, light brown, tawny
  • 煎茶 【センチャ】 green tea, green leaf tea, non-powdered tea (as opposed to matcha), medium-grade green tea
  • 抹茶 【マッチャ】 matcha, powdered green tea
  • 茶道 【サドウ】 tea ceremony, Way of Tea, sadō
  • 茶店 【サテン】 tea house
  • 喫茶 【キッサ】 tea drinking, teahouse, tearoom, coffee lounge, coffee shop, (rather formal) cafe
  • 歌声喫茶 【ウタゴエキッサ】 utagoe coffeehouse, sing-along tearoom, coffee shop in which customers can sing in chorus accompanied by a band

Readings

Japanese names:
ちや
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
cha2
Korean:
da, cha

Spanish

  • hoja de té

Portuguese

  • chá

French

  • thé
275 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
187 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
171 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
805 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3940 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
392 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
245 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
931 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.5 Japanese for Busy People
251 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
251 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
145 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
654 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2808 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1446 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1948 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
258 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
30915P Morohashi
2259 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
5033 New Nelson (John Haig)
252 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
267 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
183 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1964 2001 Kanji
3k6.19 The Kanji Dictionary
2-3-6 SKIP code
4490.4 Four corner code
1-35-67 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
8336 Unicode hex code

16 strokes
Radical:
water 水 (氵, 氺)
Parts:
voiced, uncleanness, wrong, nigori, impurity
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1883 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 濁流 【ダクリュウ】 muddy stream
  • 濁音 【ダクオン】 syllable with a voiced consonant (in Japanese), voiced sound
  • 汚濁 【オダク】 pollution, contamination, corruption, graft
  • 清濁 【セイダク】 good and evil, purity and impurity, voiced and unvoiced consonants
  • 濁酒 【ドブロク】 doburoku (unrefined sake)
  • 濁世 【ダクセ】 this corrupt or degenerate world, this world or life, the world of mankind

Kun reading compounds

  • 濁る 【にごる】 to become muddy, to become cloudy, to become turbid, to become impure (of a liquid or gas), to become dull (of a sound, color, etc.), to become indistinct, to become fuzzy, to become hoarse, to become impure (of one's heart, a society, etc.), to be corrupted, to be polluted, to become voiced (of a consonant), to be pronounced as a voiced sound
  • 濁す 【にごす】 to make muddy (of a liquid), to make cloudy, to make turbid, to roil, to make ambiguous, to evade (e.g. the point), to be noncommittal about

Readings

Japanese names:
にごり
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhuo2
Korean:
tag

Spanish

  • suciedad
  • impureza
  • turbieza
  • ensuciar
  • tergiversar
  • enturbiar
  • ensuciarse
  • enturbiarse

Portuguese

  • sonoro
  • sujidade
  • errado
  • impureza

French

  • troubler
  • consonne sonore (nigori)
  • impureté
  • faux
  • boueux
1558 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1787 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
2710 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1749 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1507 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2457 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1625 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1735 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1511 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1255 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
953 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
533 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
695 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
843 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
18440 Morohashi
774 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3348 New Nelson (John Haig)
835 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
898 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1836 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
352 2001 Kanji
3a13.8 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-13 SKIP code
3612.7 Four corner code
1-34-89 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
6fc1 Unicode hex code