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お茶

おちゃ

tea (polite)

Mnemonic

A leaf picked off the bush, dried, and poured out hot, with the お on the front because nobody says it bare. Oh, cha おちゃ, shall I make some: おちゃ.

Built from

tea
艹 grass on top of a shelter. The leaf that gets picked and dried, and everything poured out of it after.

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