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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).

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沙 character breakdown

few / less / to lack / to be missing / to stop (doing sth) / seldom
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"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]
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Characters with 沙 as component

katydid (family Tettigoniidae) / phonetic "sha" used in transliteration
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see 莎草[suo1 cao3] / see 摩莎[mo2 suo1]
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(phonetic) / see 婆娑[po2 suo1]
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horse chestnut / Stewartia pseudocamellia (botany)
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phonetic "sal" (Korean gugja)
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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)
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
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)

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