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沙发 (shā fā): meaning and stroke order

沙发 (shā fā) means sofa (loanword), 条张, (Internet slang) the first reply or replier to a forum post.

沙发

Simplified
沙发
Traditional
沙發
Pinyin
shā fā

Stroke order of 沙发

沙

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

Stroke by stroke

发

  • fā to send out; to show (one's feeling)
  • fà hair; Taiwan pr. [fa3]
  • 5 strokes
  • Traditional form: 發

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 沙发

  1. shā fā Traditional 沙發
    • sofa (loanword)
    • CL:條|条[tiao2],張|张[zhang1]
    • (Internet slang) the first reply or replier to a forum post

Radicals of the characters

沙
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 7 strokes · 氵 on the left, 少 on the right
发
Radical 又 (Kangxi radical 29) · 5 strokes

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.

沙发 in our stories

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  • 钱多多搬了新家，想在网上买一个便宜又好看的沙发。

    Qián Duōduō bān le xīn jiā xiǎng zài wǎngshang mǎi yí gè piányi yòu hǎokàn de shāfā

    Qian Duoduo had moved into a new flat and wanted to buy a cheap, good-looking sofa online.

    From the story The ninety-nine-yuan sofa HSK 4

Stories using 沙发

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).