Jisho

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9 strokes
Radical:
stone
Parts:
sand
Kun:
すな
On:
シャ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 6
JLPT level N2
1146 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 砂漠 【サバク】 desert
  • 砂糖 【サトウ】 sugar
  • 土砂 【ドシャ】 sediment, earth and sand
  • 流砂 【リュウサ】 quicksand
  • 砂岩 【サガン】 sandstone
  • 砂丘 【サキュウ】 sand dune, sand hill
  • 土砂 【ドシャ】 sediment, earth and sand
  • 流砂 【リュウサ】 quicksand

Kun reading compounds

  • 砂 【すな】 sand, grit
  • 砂浜 【すなはま】 sandy beach
  • 鳴き砂 【なきすな】 singing sand (which produces sound when stepped on), whistling sand, squeaking sand, barking sand
  • 猫砂 【ねこすな】 cat litter, kitty litter

Readings

Japanese names:
いさ、 ご
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
sha1
Korean:
sa

Spanish

  • arena
  • gravilla

Portuguese

  • Areia

French

  • sable
879 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
869 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1031 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3181 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1127 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
764 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
876 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1151 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1204 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1152 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1399 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1457 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
772 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1047 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
118 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
24046 Morohashi
1133 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
3992 New Nelson (John Haig)
117 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
122 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
882 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3360 2001 Kanji
5a4.3 The Kanji Dictionary
1-5-4 SKIP code
1962.0 Four corner code
1-26-29 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7802 Unicode hex code

11 strokes
Radical:
earth
Parts:
piled high
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2184 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 堆 【タイ】 bank (river, lake), pile, heap
  • 堆積 【タイセキ】 accumulation, pile, heap, sedimentation
  • 砂堆 【サタイ】 sandbank, shoal
  • 浅堆 【センタイ】 bank (sea, ocean), shoal
  • 堆朱 【ツイシュ】 red lacquerware with patterns carved in relief

Kun reading compounds

  • 堆い 【うずたかい】 piled up high, in a heap

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
dui1, zui1
Korean:
toe

Spanish

  • torre alta de cosas apiladas
  • lugar alto mar adentro

Portuguese

French

1094 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1295 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1749 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
563 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
425 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
5211 Morohashi
1035 New Nelson (John Haig)
2185 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
596 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3b8.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-8 SKIP code
4011.4 Four corner code
1-34-47 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5806 Unicode hex code