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沙 — granule; hoarse; raspy

granule; hoarse; raspy; sand; powder

Pinyin
shā · shà · Shā
Strokes
7
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — shā, shà, Shā — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 沙: 7 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

沙 — 7 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

Build a printable practice sheet with 沙

Words with 沙 in the HSK syllabus: 6

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 沙发shāfāsofa; first reply to a forum postHSK 3
  2. 沙漠shāmòdesertHSK 5
  3. 沙子shāzisand; gritHSK 5
  4. 风沙fēngshāsand blown by wind; sandstormHSK 7–9
  5. 沙龙shālóngsalonHSK 7–9
  6. 沙滩shātānbeach; sandy shoreHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.