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莎

shā, suō

kind of sedge grass

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 沙 represents the sound.

Components
艹 meaning component

艹  Meaning component

cao, cǎo

  

grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

沙 sound component

沙  Sound component

shā

  

sand

Evolution

莎 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
莎 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
莎 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
莎 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

莎  

shā

kind of sedge grass, used anciently for raincoats; katydid (family Tettigoniidae); phonetic "sha" used in transliteration

莎  

suō

see 莎草[suō​cǎo]; see 摩莎[mó​suō]

Most common words with 莎
Freq.
Word
Meaning

莎

katydid (family Tettigoniidae)

伊丽莎白

Elizabeth (person name)

莎拉

Sara or Sarah (name)

莎士比亚

Shakespeare (name)

莎拉波娃

Sharapova (Russian female tennis star)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 13.6152% of movies

1055th most common character in movies

2125th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+838E

Shuowen

“莎，鎬侯也。从艸，沙聲。”


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