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Mythic Mandarin

沙漠 (shā mò): meaning and stroke order

沙漠 (shā mò) means desert, 个.

沙漠

Simplified
沙漠
Traditional
沙漠 (same form)
Pinyin
shā mò

Stroke order of 沙漠

沙

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

Stroke by stroke

漠

  • mò desert; unconcerned
  • 13 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 沙漠

  1. shā mò
    • desert
    • CL:個|个[ge4]

Radicals of the characters

沙
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 7 strokes · 氵 on the left, 少 on the right
漠
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 13 strokes · 氵 on the left, 莫 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.

沙漠 in our stories

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  • 可是谁也不知道大月氏在哪里，路上要穿过匈奴的地盘，还有大片的沙漠。

    kěshì shéi yě bù zhīdao Dà Yuèzhī zài nǎli lù shàng yào chuānguò Xiōngnú de dìpán háiyǒu dàpiàn de shāmò

    But nobody knew where the Yuezhi were, and the way led through Xiongnu territory and across vast deserts.

    From the story Zhang Qian's mission to the West HSK 6

Stories using 沙漠

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).