Mnemonic comic for 沙

Translation

sha̅ = sh + a1: granule / hoarse / raspy / sand / powder / CL:粒[li4] / abbr. for Tsar or Tsarist Russia

Mnemonic

Sherlock Holmes (sh) is selling bottles (氵) in front of the ashram (a1). Smiley (少) comes round because thon is very thirsty and buys a bottle, just to find out that it contains only sand (沙).

沙 character breakdown

沙
- 少
  - 丿
  - 小
    - 亅
    - 八
      - 丿
      - ㇏
- 氵
  - ⺀
    - 丶
  - ㇀

shǎo = sh + ao3

few / less / to lack / to be missing / to stop (doing sth) / seldom

少 = 丿 + 小 : Mnemonic symbol: 少 looks like a smiley face.

There's a food shortage (少) in the aorta, and Sherlock Holmes (sh) and Smiley (少) are looking for food in the living room (ao3). There's only one banana (丿) left. Soon they'll have to eat the many daisies (小) which are growing there.

shào = sh + ao4

young

shuǐ = shu + ei3

"water" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 85), occurring in 沒|没[mei2], 法[fa3], 流[liu2] etc / see also 三點水|三点水[san1 dian3 shui3]

氵 = ⺀ + ㇀ : Mnemonic symbol: a bottle of water. Sheldon Shrimp (shu) enjoys a bottle of water (氵) in the Eiffel Tower's living room (ei3). The got the water by scratching (㇀) a blossom (⺀) and catching the leaking dew in a bottle.

Characters with 沙 as component

sha̅ = sh + a1

shark

sha̅ = sh + a1

katydid (family Tettigoniidae) / phonetic "sha" used in transliteration

suo̅ = su + o1

see 莎草[suo1 cao3] / see 摩莎[mo2 suo1]

suo̅ = su + o1

(phonetic) / see 婆娑[po2 suo1]

suo̅ = su + o1

horse chestnut / Stewartia pseudocamellia (botany)

sha̅ = sh + a1

Buddhist monk's robe

sha̅ = sh + a1

cholera

phonetic "sal" (Korean gugja)

suo̅ = su + o1

feel / to fondle

suo̅ = su + o1

variant of 挲[suo1]

Words with 沙

Gaza / same as 加沙地帶|加沙地带[Jia1 sha1 di4 dai4], the Gaza strip

lit. like a sheet of loose sand / fig. unable to cooperate (idiom)

slushie / smoothie / crushed ice drink / frappucino

sand content / quantity of sediment (carried by a river)

salmonella typhimurium

Coxsackievirus

Gaza strip

Nansha Islands or Spratly Islands / Nansha District of Guangzhou City 廣州市|广州市[Guang3 zhou1 Shi4], Guangdong

Nansha District of Guangzhou City 廣州市|广州市[Guang3 zhou1 Shi4], Guangdong

Spratly Islands, disputed between China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam

Gurbantunggut Desert, northern Xinjiang

laksa, spicy noodle soup of Southeast Asia

to attack someone by innuendo (idiom) / to make oblique charges / to make insinuations / to insinuate

wasabi (loanword) (Tw)

wasabi (loanword) (Tw)

La Salle (used in the names of schools etc) / Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (1651-1719), French priest, founder of the Brothers of the Christian Schools

laksa, spicy noodle soup of Southeast Asia

Macclesfield Bank, series of reefs in the South China Sea southeast of Hainan Island

(bird species of China) scaly-sided merganser (Mergus squamatus)

cinnabar (used in TCM)

Sentences with 沙

沙 currently does not appear in any sentence.