shā

sand; hoarse; raspy

HSK 4 #848

Character data

HSK 4
Frequency 848th character
Radical ⽔ (85.4)
Strokes 7
Index # 860

Definitions

沙 shā
  1. 1. sand
  2. 2. hoarse
  3. 3. raspy
  4. 4. powder
  5. 5. granule
  6. 6. surname Sha
  7. 7. abbr. for Tsar or Tsarist Russia
  8. 8. CL

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Words containing 沙

Word Meaning
sand and stones
sandworm
Pervez Musharraf, former Pakistan leader
Kinshasa, capital of Congo (DRC)
Kinshasa, capital of Zaire
Tsarist Russia; abbr. for shā huáng é guó
Sha county in Sanming sān míng, Fujian
golden sand; Jinsha, a place name
sand content; quantity of sediment (carried by a river)
Gobi Desert
Shashi District in Jingzhou, Hubei
sirloin (loanword)
desertification
sari (loanword)
small bits add up to something big
fig. unable to cooperate (idiom)
Zhongsha Islands; Macclesfield Bank in SCS
Macclesfield Bank, reefs in South China Sea
scaly-sided merganser duck of China
(bird species of China) scaly-sided merganser (Mergus squamatus)
cinnabar (used in TCM)
salmonella typhimurium
salmonella typhimurium
Coxsackievirus