noun / ~する noun:

• rendezvous; meeting; assignation

noun:

• area where guests gather before the start of a tea ceremony
• waiting room - abbreviation ➜ 待合室【まちあいしつ】
• meeting place for assignations, drinking, etc. - archaism - abbreviation ➜ 待合茶屋【まちあいぢゃや】

noun / suffix:

• stuffing; packing - づめ when a suffix

noun:

• end (esp. the foot of a bridge)
• lowest-ranking guest at tea ceremony
• tea master
• endgame (esp. in shogi or used figuratively)
• sweet eel sauce - abbreviation
• middle-aged woman - archaism

suffix noun:

• appointment to a particular workplace
• using as the sole ground of judgement (judgment)
• continuing; keep doing for period of time - after the -masu stem of a verb

noun:

• wagon
• tea wagon; teacart; tea trolley
• station wagon; estate car - abbreviation ➜ ステーションワゴン

noun:

• night chat; tale told at night
• evening tea party (starting around 6 pm) ［よばなし］

noun / suffix noun:

• book of informal essays ［やわ］

noun / ~の noun:

• farce; charade

noun:

• person who serves tea
• short and humorous improvised sketch (originating from Edo-era kabuki)

noun:

• bite; collation; snack ➜ おちゃのこ
• tea cake ➜ 茶菓子・ちゃうけ
• light meal taken before breakfast by peasants - archaism

noun:

• dirt mound
• dirt walls on the inside of the sunken hearth in a tea room
• platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period

noun:

• enclosure; fence; wall; pen; paling
• storage (of fruit, vegetables, etc.)
• partitioned area of a room for conducting tea ceremonies
• mistress - abbreviation ➜ 囲い者
• castle; strong defensive position - Shōgi term

noun / suffix noun:

• clothes (esp. Western clothes)

suffix / counter:

• counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc. ➜ 一服

noun:

• lunch; midday meal
• food served at a tea party (tea ceremony) - usu. 中食

noun:

• common camellia; Camellia japonica
• tea produced in the mountains ［さんちゃ］

noun:

• guest of honor; guest of honour
• main guest at a tea ceremony

noun:

• skill; dexterity; artistry; ingenuity
• etiquette of tea-ceremony

noun:

• headliner
• latter half of a formal tea ceremony (in which the tea is actually consumed) ➜ 初座

noun:

• (sound of) wind through pine trees; soughing of wind through pine trees
• (metaphorically) sound of a boiling tea kettle

noun / ~の noun:

• light brown ［しらちゃ］

noun:

• white tea

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to make fun of; to look down on; to make light of
• to take a tea break; to rest

noun:

• white charcoal ➜ 黒炭【くろずみ】
• charcoal used for tea ceremony

noun:

• purificatory font at shrines and temples
• kitchen
• cupboard
• room adjacent to a tea ceremony room, where utensils are washed
• vendor of drinking water
• building for taking refuge during a flood

noun:

• jujube (Ziziphus jujube); Chinese date; red date
• small tea caddy (tea ceremony)

noun:

• Hydrangea macrophylla var. thunbergii (variety of bigleaf hydrangea)
• sweet hydrangea leaf; hydrangea tea

noun:

• cinch; pushover; easy matter; piece of cake
• light snack; cake served with tea

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to behave; to conduct oneself
• to entertain; to treat someone (to a drink); to make tea for someone (tea ceremony)

noun:

• between-meal snack
• mid-afternoon (around 3 o'clock) snack; afternoon refreshment; afternoon tea ➜ 八つ時

noun:

• bergamot (Citrus aurantium ssp. bergamia); bergamot orange - From Italian "bergamotto"
• bergamot (Monarda didyma); bee balm; Oswego tea