娑 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning

old woman

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • シャ
Other languages
  • 拼音suo1
  • 한글sa
  • Hán-ViệtSa

Basics

Strokes
10 strokes
Radical
子(こ)
JIS level
Level 2
Unicode
U+5A11

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): top–bottom ⿱沙女

Words using this kanji

  • 娑婆しゃば(仏教)煩悩の多い現世。 (俗語)刑務所などの拘束され自由を制約された場所にいる者から見た、外の自由な世界。一般社会。this world, this life, the free world (outside of prison, the army, red light district, etc.), this corrupt world
  • 娑婆気しゃばけworldly desires or ambitions
  • 娑羅樹さらじゅJapanese stewartia (Stewartia pseudocamellia), sal (tree) (Shorea robusta), saul
  • 娑婆ッ気しゃばッけworldly desires
  • 娑婆塞ぎしゃばふさぎgood-for-nothing, deadweight, parasite, waste of space

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

See all words containing this kanji(6 results)

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Lookup codes

SKIP
2-7-3
Four Corner
3940.4
Spahn–Hadamitzky
3e7.12
Nelson
1224