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魦

shā

Character

What 魦 means

1. shark family, including some rays and skates

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
• 铩(old) spear; lance; (literary) to cripple; to harm; to injure
• 樧Zanthoxylum ailanthoides

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