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莎

莎

Translingual

Han character

莎 (radical 140 艸+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿水火竹 (TEFH), four-corner 44129, composition ⿱艹沙)

  1. kind of sedge grass, used in ancient times for raincoats

References

  • KangXi: page 1033, character 32
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 31040
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1493, character 5
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3224, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+838E

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 莎

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (沙) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 莎
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 戈 (95)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 蘇禾切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /suɑ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /suɑ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /suɑ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /swa/
Li
Rong		 /suɑ/
Wang
Li		 /suɑ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /suɑ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 suō
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 莎
Reading # 1/1
No. 11036
Phonetic
component		 沙
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 莎
Old
Chinese		 /*soːl/

Definitions

莎

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Japanese

Kanji

莎

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

莎 • ‎(sa) (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune-Reischauer sa, Yale sa)

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Vietnamese

Han character

莎 (toa, sa)

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