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Translingual

Han character

(radical 112 +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


Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*ʔsaːlʔ, *sʰaːlʔ, *sraːl
*saːl, *saːlʔ
*saːl, *sraːl
*saːl
*saːl
*saːl, *sreŋʔ, *seŋʔ
*sraːl, *sraːls
*sraːl
*sraːl
*sraːl
*sraːl
*sraːl
髿 *sraːl, *soːl
*sraːl, *soːl
*soːl
*soːl

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (21)
Final () (98)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () II
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʃˠa/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʃᵚa/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʃa/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʂaɨ/
Li
Rong
/ʃa/
Wang
Li
/ʃa/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʂa/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shā
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 11027
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sraːl/
Notes

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 砂煲

Japanese

Kanji

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
すな
Grade: 6
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana すな, romaji suna)

  1. sand
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
いさご
Grade: 6
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(hiragana いさご, romaji isago)

  1. sand

References

  1. 1 2 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. 1 2 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

(sa)

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Yonaguni

Kanji

(hiragana ちな, romaji china)

Etymology

Cognate with mainland Japanese (suna).

Noun

(hiragana ちな, romaji china)

  1. sand

Yoron

Kanji

(hiragana しな, romaji shina)

Etymology

Cognate with mainland Japanese (suna).

Noun

(hiragana しな, romaji shina)

  1. sand