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shà Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
shà | sha4
English translation
large building; mansion

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About shà

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Number of strokes

13

Traditional form

shà

Contains the radical

广 Guǎng

Part of speech

Non-morpheme / 非语素字 Fēi yǔsù zì

Learning hint

building

Etymology of shà

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

广夏

Semantic compound

广 Guǎng

Phonetic compound

Xià

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. hǎn represents the meaning and Xià represents the sound. Simplified form of shà .

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Words with shà

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
大厦 dàshà (used in the names of grand buildings such as 百老匯大廈|百老汇大厦 Broadway Mansions (in Shanghai) or 帝國大廈|帝国大厦 Dì guó Dà shà Empire State Building etc)大廈
厦门 Xià mén Xiamen or Amoy, subprovincial city in Fujian, abbr. shà | Xià [Xià]廈門
Xià mansion shà
厦门市 Xià mén shì also known as Amoy廈門市
高楼大厦 gāo lóu dà shà tall building高樓大廈
厦门大学 Xià mén Dà xué Xiamen University廈門大學
摩天大厦 mó tiān dà shà skyscraper摩天大廈
金茂大厦 Jīn mào Dà shà Jin Mao Tower, skyscraper in Shanghai金茂大廈
大厦将倾 dà shà jiāng qīng great mansion on the verge of collapse (idiom); hopeless situation大廈將傾
噶厦 gá xià government of Tibet, dissolved in 1959噶廈

shà Decomposition & Compounds

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