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铩

shā

Character Traditional 鎩

What 铩 means

1. oldspear; lance
2. literaryto cripple; to harm; to injure

Words starting with 铩

• 铩羽shā yǔ(literary) (lit.) to cripple the wings of a bird; (literary) (fig.) depressed…
• 铩羽而归shā yǔ ér guī(idiom) to return in low spirits following a defeat or failure to achieve one's ambitions

Sounds the same

Read shā, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 杀to kill; to slay; to murder; to attack; to weaken; to reduce; (dialect) to smart
• 沙granule; hoarse; raspy
• 莎katydid (family Tettigoniidae); phonetic "sha" used in transliteration
• 纱cotton yarn; muslin
• 煞to terminate; to cut short; to bring to a stop
• 砂sand; gravel; granule
• 刹to brake
• 鲨shark
• 痧cholera
• 裟used in 袈裟
• 樧Zanthoxylum ailanthoides
• 魦shark family, including some rays and skates