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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *撒* | 撒* | *撒
to let go / to cast / to let loose / to discharge / to give expression to / (coll.) to pee
HSK 7-9
to frolic; to gambol
erhua form of 撒歡|撒欢
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *撒* | 撒* | *撒
to scatter / to sprinkle / to spill
to get drunk and act crazy / roaring drunk
to tell lies
HSK 7-9
to sow (seeds by scattering) / scatter sowing
to pass water / to piss / to urinate / to wee wee
to act like a spoiled child / to throw a tantrum / to act coquettishly
Caesar or Kaiser (name)
to stand aside and do nothing (idiom) / to take no part in
Sahara
Salar ethnic group of Qinghai province
Isaiah (Catholic transliteration)
to let go of sth / to give up
(Catholic) Mass
Sahara Desert
Samaria
Isaiah
Sahrawi (person)
to throw a net
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
to leak (of air) / to go flat (of a tire) / to vent one's anger
sashimi (loanword)
to sow (seeds) / to scatter
Satan or Shaitan
Anglo-Saxon
Peloponnese (peninsula in southern Greece)
Lazarus (Protestant transliteration)
Anglo-Saxon
(dialect) to scamper off; to take to one's heels; to make oneself scarce
you don't release the hawk until you've seen the hare (idiom) / one doesn't act before one is sure to succeed
Isaac (son of Abraham)
Caesarea (town in Israel, between Tel Aviv and Haifa)
Mrs Thatcher / Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990
sub-Saharan
to take to one's heels / to scram
(Protestantism) Salmon (son of Nashon)
to eat, drink, shit, piss, and sleep / (fig.) the ordinary daily routine
Book of Zechariah
Thatcher (name) / Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990
sudden
Jerusalem
Eleazar (son of Eluid)
Nazareth (in Biblical Palestine)
Saxon (people)
to make an unreasonable scene
(Catholicism) Solomon, a king of ancient Israel
to make a scene / to raise hell
Caesar salad dressing
Zadok (son of Azor and father of Achim in Matthew 1:13)
Sadducees
(coll.) gesture by an idol aimed at delighting fans (e.g. winking or throwing signed items); to interact with fans in such a manner (loanword from Japanese "fansābisu" – literally, "fan service")
to run off / to beat it
(coll.) to talk in one's sleep; to sleepwalk
Zechariah (name) / Zechariah (Old Testament prophet)
Sahrawi
Asa (?-870 BC), third king of Judah and fifth king of the House of David (Judaism)
Requiem Mass (Catholic)
lit. the wind cannot be caught in a net / to waste one's effort (idiom)
Caesar (name) / Gaius Julius Caesar 100-42 BC / by extension, emperor, Kaiser, Tsar
First book of Samuel
Spanish Sahara (former Spanish colony in Africa)
sub-Saharan Africa
Satan, Devil king
Nebuchadnezzar
Second Epistle of St Paul to the Thessalonians
to sprinkle
to behave ingratiatingly
to leave one's mortal frame (idiom) / to die
Shealtiel (son of Jeconiah)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) American novelist and short story writer
(slang) to be lovey-dovey in public
to display shockingly bad behavior / to behave atrociously
Salar ethnic group of Qinghai province
to sow seeds
(Catholicism) Salmon (son of Nashon)
to intersperse comic dialogue (as they do in operas)
Salar, language of Salar ethnic group of Qinghai province
Issac (name)
First epistle of St Paul to the Thessalonians
(dialect) to curse; to speak vulgarly
Second book of Samuel
to have nothing further to do with a matter (idiom)
Anglo-Saxon (people)
Western Sahara
Julius Caesar, 1599 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Jishishan Bonan, Dongxiang and Salar Autonomous County, in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture 臨夏回族自治州|临夏回族自治州, Gansu
Thessalonica
Sardinia
variant of 撒丫子
(fig.) trump card
Saxon (people)
variant of 撒旦, Satan or Shaitan


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