砂

Translingual

Han character

砂 (radical 112 石+4, 9 strokes, cangjie input 一口火竹 (MRFH), four-corner 1962₀)

1. sand
2. pebbles, gravel
3. gritty

References

• KangXi: page 827, character 20
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24046
• Dae Jaweon: page 1242, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2420, character 4
• Unihan data for U+7802

See also

• 沙

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Cantonese

Hanzi

砂 (Yale sa1)

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Japanese

Noun

砂 (hiragana すな, romaji suna)

1. sand; a rock broken into small pieces

Kanji

砂 (grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: さ (sa), しゃ (sha)
• Kun: すな (suna)

Compounds

• 砂金 (さきん, sakin): gold dust

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Korean

Hanja

砂 (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune-Reischauer sa, Yale sa)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

砂 (pinyin shā (sha1), Wade-Giles sha¹)

Compounds

• 砂煲

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Min Nan

Hanzi

砂 sa1; sua1; sê1

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Vietnamese

Han character

砂 (sa)

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Wu

Hanzi

砂 so