Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ocha

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.12 in modern English

Syllables: ocha
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Japanese tea, usually green tea.

Uncountable

name

Abbreviation of United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

name

Former name of Euboea.

Example Sentences

"Right now I am drinking ocha and listening to the rain whipping across the windowpanes."
"In the winters, they would sit together in the tiny attic space that the old man had been occupying in the house for the past 25 years and drink hot ocha as Rakesh-7 wove together seemingly simple threads into complex and detailed narrations […]"
"Before each she quickly dispatched a bowl of miso soup, a small but steaming cup of ocha (green tea), some sushimi (raw fish), sukiyaki, boiled rice, octopus, udon noodles and some eel and sushi."
"Good quality tea can be steeped up to five times as the flavor evolves and becomes more subtle with each steep. In this way, we honor the tea plant and the labor of the many hands that create a single cup of ocha."

Etymology

From Japanese お茶 (ocha), from 御 (o-, honorific prefix) + 茶 (cha, “tea”), from Middle Chinese 茶 (MC drae), whence English cha.

Origin

Source language: Japanese

Word Breakdown

Root: お茶, -

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does ocha mean?: Japanese tea, usually green tea.
Where does ocha come from?: It is traced to Japanese.

How to pronounce ocha

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