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洒

sǎ

HSK 5 Character Traditional 灑

What 洒 means

1. to sprinkle
2. to spray
3. to spill
4. to shed

Example sentences

• 你洒了什么？
  What did you spill?
• 在伤口上洒盐。
  Zài shāngkǒu shàng sǎ yán.
  Rub salt in the wound.
• 谁把汽水洒了？
  Who spilled the soda?
• 所有的牛奶都洒出去了。
  Suǒyǒu de niúnǎi dōu sǎ chūqù le.
  All of the milk was spilled.
• 汤姆把饮料洒到了自己身上。
  Tāngmǔ bǎ yǐnliào sǎ dào le zìjǐ shēnshang.
  Tom spilled his drink on himself.
• 我在鱼上洒盐和胡椒作调味。
  I seasoned the fish with salt and pepper.

Words starting with 洒

• 洒脱sǎ tuofree and at ease; natural; unconstrained
• 洒满sǎ mǎnto sprinkle over sth
• 洒落sǎ luòto fall downward in a scattered, lightly sprinkled manner (as light, petals, leaves etc)…
• 洒家sǎ jiā(archaic) I; me (used by males during the Song and Yuan dynasties)
• 洒布sǎ bùto spread
• 洒水sǎ shuǐto sprinkle
• 洒水机sǎ shuǐ jīsprinkler
• 洒水车sǎ shuǐ chēsprinkler truck
• 洒狗血sǎ gǒu xiěto overreact; melodramatic

Words containing 洒

• 潇洒xiāo sǎconfident and at ease; free and easy
• 挥洒huī sǎto sprinkle; to shed (tears, blood etc); fig. free, unconstrained
• 洋洋洒洒yáng yáng sǎ sǎvoluminous; flowing (of speeches, articles etc) (idiom)
• 喷洒pēn sǎto spray; to sprinkle
• 飘洒piāo sǎsuave; graceful; fluent and elegant (calligraphy)
• 抛洒pāo sǎto drip; to flow out; to sprinkle
• 脱洒tuō sǎelegant; free and easy
• 花洒huā sǎshowerhead; sprinkler
• 喷洒器pēn sǎ qìsprinkler; sprayer
• 布洒器bù sǎ qìdisperser
• 挥毫洒墨huī háo sǎ mòto wield a writing brush (idiom)
• 挥洒自如huī sǎ zì rú(idiom) to do (sth) with great aplomb
• 溅洒jiàn sǎto spill; to splatter; to splash
• 萧洒xiāo sǎvariant of 潇洒

Characters that look like 洒

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 酒jiǔwine (esp. rice wine); liquor; spirits
• 泄xiè(bound form) to leak out; to discharge; (fig.) to divulge
• 涛tāobig wave; Taiwan pr. táo
• 涡guōname of a river
• 涕tìtears; nasal mucus
• 驿yìpost horse; relay station

Sounds the same

Read sǎ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 撒to scatter; to sprinkle; to spill
• 靸children's shoe (old); to wear one's shoes babouche style
• 潵name of a river in Hebei Province