沙 — sand

さ沙 sand

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 7 strokes

U+6C99 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1897 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #151 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

sand

word

さ sa On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

沙(さ) 汰(た) sata affair ご無(ぶ) 沙(さ) 汰(た) gobusata not having been in touch 沙(さ) sa sand

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

氵 water (left form)

しょう少 few

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

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