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

12 strokes
Radical:
rice
Parts:
Variants:
rice gruel
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2280 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 粥 【カユ】 thin rice porridge, watery cooked rice, rice gruel, congee, breakfast (in Zen temples)
  • 粥状 【ジュクジョウ】 arthero-, atheromatous, gruel-like, porridge-like
  • 粥状硬化 【ジュクジョウコウカ】 atherosclerosis, atherosclerotic
  • 糜粥 【ビジュク】 chyme

Kun reading compounds

  • 粥 【かゆ】 thin rice porridge, watery cooked rice, rice gruel, congee, breakfast (in Zen temples)
  • 粥占 【かゆうら】 rice porridge divination, harvest divination carried out during Koshōgatsu
  • 白粥 【しらがゆ】 unflavored rice porridge, rice porridge made of only white rice and water
  • 粥 【かゆ】 thin rice porridge, watery cooked rice, rice gruel, congee, breakfast (in Zen temples)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zhou1, yu4
Korean:
jug, yug, gug

Spanish

Portuguese

French

1574 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
698 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
525 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
26938 Morohashi
4402 New Nelson (John Haig)
2243 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2349 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3h9.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-9 SKIP code
1722.7 Four corner code
1-20-01 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7ca5 Unicode hex code