座 （ザ） seat, place, position, status, gathering, party, company, atmosphere (of a gathering), stand, pedestal, platform, trade guild, attaches to the names of constellations, attaches to the names of theatres, cinemas and theatrical troupes, counter for theatres, deities, Buddhist images, tall mountains, and satokagura songs

座敷 （ザシキ） tatami room, tatami mat room, formal Japanese room, dinner party in a tatami room (esp. when a geisha or maiko attends)

連座 （レンザ） implication (in a crime), involvement, sitting in a row (in the same seat)

同坐 （ドウザ） sitting together, the same theater (theatre), involvement, entanglement, implication

座る （すわる） to sit, to squat, to assume (a position), to hold steady, to hold still