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沙 (shā): meaning and stroke order

沙 (shā) means granule, hoarse, raspy, sand, powder, CL:粒, abbr. for Tsar or Tsarist Russia, surname Sha.

沙

Simplified
沙
Traditional
沙 (same form)
Pinyin
shā · shà

Stroke order of 沙

沙

  • Shā surname Sha
  • shā granule; hoarse
  • shà (dialect) to sift; to sieve
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 沙

  1. shā
    • granule
    • hoarse
    • raspy
    • sand
    • powder
    • CL:粒[li4]
    • abbr. for Tsar or Tsarist Russia
  2. Shā
    • surname Sha
  3. shà
    • (dialect) to sift; to sieve

Radical and structure

沙
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 7 strokes · 氵 on the left, 少 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 沙

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).