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sofa (loanword) / CL: 條|条, 張|张 / (Internet slang) the first reply or replier to a forum post
HSK 3
sand / grit / CL: ,
HSK 3
desert / CL: 個|个
HSK 5
beach / sandy shore / CL:
HSK 7-9
sand blown by wind / sandstorm
HSK 7-9
salon (loanword)
HSK 7-9
levofloxacin
sandy soil
Asian pear; sand pear (Pyrus pyrifolia)
to plan a military mission on a sand table (idiom) / to rehearse a planned action or activity / to conduct a dry run
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  *沙* | 沙* | *沙
surname Sha
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  *沙* | 沙* | *沙
granule / hoarse / raspy / sand / powder / CL: / abbr. for Tsar or Tsarist Russia
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  *沙* | 沙* | *沙
(dialect) to sift; to sieve
Shawan district of Leshan city 樂山市|乐山市, Sichuan
(bird species of China) desert finch (Rhodospiza obsoleta)
couchsurfing / couchsurfer
Shahekou district of Dalian 大連市|大连市, Liaoning
Sha Wujing, aka Friar Sand or Sandy, one of the three disciples of the Buddhist monk Tang Sanzang in "Journey to the West" 西遊記|西游记
Sabah, state of Malaysia in north Borneo 婆羅洲|婆罗洲
sweetened bean paste
Estonia
Jehoshaphat, fourth king of Judah (Judaism)
gold dust / salted egg yolk sauce
Sha Wujing
chauvinism
thalidomide
sandy
hourglass / sand filter
muscovite, mica (used in TCM)
hoarse; husky; raspy
submerged sandbank / submerged coral islet
Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
satay (spicy peanut sauce), also spelled sate
Salmonella
sandy beach or river bank / sand dune / sandy land
czar (loanword)
Warsaw, capital of Poland
Baisha (common place name) / Baisha Lizu autonomous county, Hainan / Baisha or Paisha township in Penghu county 澎湖縣|澎湖县 (Pescadores Islands), Taiwan
Mogadishu, Indian ocean seaport and capital of Somalia
Sha Wujing
(bird species of China) common merganser (Mergus merganser)
Sha Tin town in New Territories, Hong Kong
silt
Shayang county in Jingmen 荊門|荆门, Hubei
swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor)
Tsarist Russia / abbr. for 沙皇俄國|沙皇俄国
sand and dust storm
sea-buckthorn
trachoma
airborne sand and dust
sand and stones
novice Buddhist monk
sandstorm
Ganesha (the elephant-headed God in Hinduism, son of Shiva and Parvati)
Saudi Arabia
grain of sand
sandbag / punching bag (trad. filled with sand)
satay sauce
Shawan district of Leshan city 樂山市|乐山市, Sichuan / Shawan county or Saven nahisi in Tacheng prefecture 塔城地區|塔城地区, Xinjiang
sandbag / punching bag (trad. filled with sand) / sand dune / footbag; hacky sack
monk (Sanskrit: Sramana, originally refers to north India) / Buddhist monk
Shapo district of Zhongwei city 中衛市|中卫市, Ningxia
Yéngisar nahiyisi (Yengisar county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区, west Xinjiang
sachima, sweet (Manchu) pastry made of fried strips of dough coated with syrup, pressed together, then cut into blocks
Shayar nahiyisi (Shaya county) in Aksu 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区, west Xinjiang
sardine (loanword)
Chuansha, name of street and park in Pudong New District 浦東新區|浦东新区, Shanghai
lit. like a sheet of loose sand / fig. unable to cooperate (idiom)
sandbox / jumping pit (athletics) / sand trap, bunker (golf)
fine sand
Saybagh district (Uighur: Saybagh Rayoni) of Urumqi city 烏魯木齊市|乌鲁木齐市, Xinjiang
Shaquille O'Neal (1972-), former NBA star
sand sculpture
see 沙拉
(bird species of China) solitary snipe (Gallinago solitaria)
sand table (military) / 3D terrain (or site) model (for real estate marketing, geography class etc) / sand tray (on which to write characters)
lit. many sand grains accumulate to form a tower (idiom) / fig. many little things add up to sth great
rustle
wasabi (loanword) (Tw)
(idiom) to attack sb by innuendo; to make insinuations
sarin (loanword)
Gurbantunggut Desert, northern Xinjiang
Peshawar, city in north Pakistan
silkworm guano (excrement)
(literary) desert / sandy shore
lit. to sort the gold from the sand (idiom) / fig. to separate the wheat from the chaff
Sarawak, state of Malaysia in northwest Borneo 婆羅洲|婆罗洲
methadone
lit. broken halberds embedded in the sand (idiom) / fig. reminder of a fierce battle; remnants of a disastrous defeat
Chinese pearleaf crabapple (Malus asiatica)
mud and sand flow together (idiom) / good and bad mingle
countless as the grains of sand in the Ganges (idiom)
Paknampho city, Thailand
Pervez Musharraf (1943-), Pakistani general and politician, president 2001-2008
sandpit / battleground / battlefield
Saudi Arabia (Tw)

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