莎

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莎 U+838E, 莎
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-838E
← 莍
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 莏 →

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

References

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

Chinese

trad. 莎
simp. # 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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *soːl) : semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 沙 (OC *sraːl, *sraːls).

Pronunciation 1

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
Baxter swa
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
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		so1
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

  1. Cyperus rotundus
  2. a kind of tree
  3. to wither
  4. Alternative form of 蓑

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

莎

  1. Used in personal names , place names and transcription.

Compounds

Pronunciation 3

Definitions

莎

  1. Only used in 捼莎.

Japanese

Kanji

莎

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

  • Go-on: さ (sa)、しゃ (sha)
  • Kan-on: さ (sa)
  • Kun: はますげ (hamasuge)

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

莎: Hán Nôm readings: toa, sa

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