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sand blown by wind / sandstorm
HSK 7-9
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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
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
Formosa (Tw)
gold dust / salted egg yolk sauce
rustle
Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Tw)
lit. like a sheet of loose sand / fig. unable to cooperate (idiom)
quicksand / (patisserie) (usu. attributive) semi-liquid filling (typically custard); lava
Warsaw, capital of Poland
sweetened bean paste
silt
Longsha district of Qiqihar city 齊齊哈爾|齐齐哈尔, Heilongjiang
silkworm guano (excrement)
scattered sand / fig. lacking in cohesion or organization
Mogadishu, Indian ocean seaport and capital of Somalia
lacking in cohesion and unity of purpose
Nansha Islands, aka Spratly Islands / Nansha District of Guangzhou City 廣州市|广州市, Guangdong
slushie / smoothie / crushed ice drink / frappucino
lit. broken halberds embedded in the sand (idiom) / fig. reminder of a fierce battle; remnants of a disastrous defeat
laksa, spicy noodle soup of Southeast Asia
cat litter / kitty litter
Yéngisar nahiyisi (Yengisar county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区, west Xinjiang
Chuansha, name of street and park in Pudong New District 浦東新區|浦东新区, Shanghai
Gaza (territory adjacent to Israel and Egypt)
sandboarding
fine sand
silicon sand
submerged sandbank / submerged coral islet
cinnabar (used in TCM)
red bean paste
muscovite, mica (used in TCM)
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
Liao Mosha (1907-1990), journalist and communist propagandist, severely criticized and imprisoned for 10 years during the Cultural Revolution
Ganesha (the elephant-headed God in Hinduism, son of Shiva and Parvati)
sand break (in desert environment)


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