tea
Came from Chinese. It usually shows up when the kanji is joined to another, forming a compound word.
The order matters: it is what makes handwriting come out legible, and it is how dictionaries index the character.
Visual decomposition, for recognising and comparing — not always the character's origin.
Where it appears is highlighted — the translation doesn't always make that visible.
ルーカス、聞いて。明日の夜、本当に落語をやるんだ。本物のお客さんの前で、お茶屋さんで。
Rūkasu, kiite. Ashita no yoru, hontou ni rakugo wo yarun da. Honmono no okyakusan no mae de, ochayasan de.
Lucas, guess what. Tomorrow night I'm performing for real. Rakugo, for an actual audience, at a tea house.
時々、朝ご飯を食べません。お茶だけ飲みます。
Tokidoki, asa gohan o tabemasen. Ocha dake nomimasu.
Sometimes, I just have tea, without eating anything.
持ってきたよ。全部終わったあとに作った、抹茶のケーキ。
Motte kita yo. Zenbu owatta ato ni tsukutta, maccha no keeki.
I did bring it. A matcha cake, made after everything settled down.
Readings and meanings: KANJIDIC2 · Decomposition: KRADFILE · Both from Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data from 2026-10-22 · Strokes: KanjiVG, Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0