漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
沙: sand
JLPT N17 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
氵 carries the meaning · 少 is drawn in
7 strokes
Bronze · Western Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Bronze and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
サsa · on'yomi · in compounds
- ご無沙汰ごぶさたnot writing or contacting for a while
- 沙汰さたaffair; state; incident
すなsuna · kun'yomi · on its own
- 沙すなsand; grit; fine gravel
Also read シャ, よなげる, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Imagine three raindrops falling—that's sanzui! Whenever you see these three dots on the left side of a kanji, think of water, liquids, or anything that flows.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side沙 sand · 氵
vs妙 exquisite · 女In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · shā
Same form: 沙 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 沙 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 沙 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin shā most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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