Character: 沙
Modern (Beijing) reading: shā
Preclassic Old Chinese: srāj
Classic Old Chinese: srāj
Western Han Chinese: ṣāj
Eastern Han Chinese: ṣǟ
Early Postclassic Chinese: ṣạ̄
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ṣạ̄
Late Postclassic Chinese: ṣạ̄
Middle Chinese: ṣạ
English meaning : sand
Russian meaning[s]: 1) песок; песчаный; пески, отмель; 2) крупинки; крупитчатый; 3) сиплый; охрипший; 4) просевать; отсеивать, очищать; 5) Ша (фамилия)
Comments: Also used for a homonymous *srāj 'satin (?)' (in inscriptions), later written as 紗 'muslin, a k. of cloth, thread, fibre'. Viet. has borrowed this word from two dialectal sources as Viet. sa and Viet. the. An older loan from the same source may be Viet. sọ'i 'filament, fibre, thread'.
Radical: 85
Four-angle index: 4069
Karlgren code: 0016 a-c
Vietnamese reading: sa
Jianchuan Bai: so4-
Dali Bai: so4-
Bijiang Bai: śo4-
