IDENTITY
沙shāsand
HSK 4Top 800
CORE MEANING
sand
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.sandHSK4
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 氵water radical (shuǐ)
- strokes
- 7
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰氵少
- water
- gives the sound shā (historical)
USAGE
Common words
沙子shāzisand
沙发shāfāsofa
沙滩shātānbeach
Graded examples
孩子们在沙滩上玩。Háizimen zài shātān shang wán.HSK4
The children play on the beach.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 纱
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
Water (氵) wearing rocks down into little (少) grains — sand.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #800
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
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