suō

dance

Components
沙 sound component

  Sound component

shā

  

sand

女 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

woman

woman

Evolution

娑 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
娑 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

suō

dance, frolic; lounge; saunter; (phonetic); see 婆娑[pó​suō]

Most common words with 娑
Freq.
Word
Meaning

(phonetic)

婆娑

to swirl about

摩娑

to stroke

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[s]ˤa[j]

sa

suō

婆娑 saunter, dance


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4335th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+5A11

Shuowen

“娑,舞也。从女,沙聲。《詩》曰:‘市也媻娑。’”


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