沙
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Translingual
Han character
沙 (radical 85, 水+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 水火竹 (EFH), four-corner 39120, composition ⿰氵少)
References
- KangXi: page 611, character 21
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17212
- Dae Jaweon: page 1005, character 3
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1562, character 9
- Unihan data for U+6C99
Chinese
| simp. and trad. |
沙 | |
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放大顯示的沙子，本為一平方釐米
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 沙 | |
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| Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (沙) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 硰 | *ʔsaːlʔ, *sʰaːlʔ, *sraːl |
| 娑 | *saːl, *saːlʔ |
| 挱 | *saːl, *sraːl |
| 挲 | *saːl |
| 桫 | *saːl |
| 渻 | *saːl, *sreŋʔ, *seŋʔ |
| 沙 | *sraːl, *sraːls |
| 紗 | *sraːl |
| 砂 | *sraːl |
| 鯊 | *sraːl |
| 裟 | *sraːl |
| 桬 | *sraːl |
| 髿 | *sraːl, *soːl |
| 魦 | *sraːl, *soːl |
| 莎 | *soːl |
| 莏 | *soːl |
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 水 (“water”) + 少 (“to lack; to be short of”).
Etymology 1
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(s/z)a-j (“earth, sand”). Compare Tibetan ས (sa, “sand”) and Burmese သဲ (sai:, “sand”).
Pronunciation 1
Definitions
沙
- sand
- something granular
- mushy and rough (as sand), texture of a watermelon of good quality.
- 沙瓤 ― shāráng ― (please add an English translation of this example)
- 沙梨 ― shālí ― Pyrus pyrifolia
- 西沙瓜 ― xīshāguā ― alternative of 硒砂瓜
- (of a voice) hoarse; husky
- (Buddhism) the number 10-8
- Short for 沙皇 (shāhuáng).
Compounds
Derived terms from 沙
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Pronunciation 2
Etymology 2
| For pronunciation and definitions of 沙 – see 砂 (“sand, ; extremely mushy and/or rough, texture of a watermelon of good quality, ”). (This character, 沙, is the second-round simplified form of 砂.) |
Notes:
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Japanese
Readings
Noun
沙 (hiragana いさご, rōmaji isago)
- small rock
- sand
Korean
Hanja
沙 • (sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune–Reischauer sa, Yale sa)
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Vietnamese
Han character
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References
- Nom Foundation
- Thiều Chửu : Hán Việt Tự Điển Hà Nội 1942
- Trần Văn Chánh: Từ Điển Hán Việt NXB Trẻ, Ho Chi Minh Ville, 1999
- Vũ Văn Kính: Đại Tự Điển Chữ Nôm, NXB Văn Nghệ, Ho Chi Minh Ville
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