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お茶
おちゃ
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(green) tea
Ocha is a compound of 御 (o-, honorific prefix) plus 茶 (cha, “tea”).
Taken apart
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Written with 茶
In a sentence
お茶が一杯欲しい。
I'd like a tea.
お茶を入れますよ。
I'll make tea for you.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “Compound of 御 (o-, honorific prefix) + 茶 (cha, “tea”).”
Source: Wiktionary: お茶 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.
- Derivation
- A word built from a stem plus a suffix or prefix.