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The kanji 砂: meaning, readings and stroke order
砂
- Meaning
- sand
- On reading
- サ sa、シャ sha
- Kun reading
- すな suna
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 石 stone
- Level
- Level 6 · grade 6
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- cát (sa)
- Japanese
- すな。
- Korean
- 모래 (사)
- Chinese
- 沙子
Readings, words and example sentences
サ sa · on reading
砂糖
sugar
紅茶に 砂糖を 入れます。
I put sugar in my tea.
シャ sha · on reading · less common
土砂
dirt and sand
大雨で 土砂が 流れました。
The heavy rain washed away dirt and sand.
すな suna · kun reading
砂
sand
海べで 砂の 山を 作ります。
We make a sand mountain at the beach.
Practise writing 砂 in the app
In Dino Kids your child writes 砂 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 6 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.
Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.