沙 shā
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Made of
- 氵 water 少 few, little
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
沙发
shāfā
sofa
Characters in this word
发 fā
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 又 — and, also, again, in addition
Example phrases
- 沙发很软。 Shāfā hěn ruǎn. The sofa is very soft.
- 我坐沙发。 Wǒ zuò shāfā. I sit on the sofa.
- 沙发在客厅。 Shāfā zài kètīng. The sofa is in the living room.
Related words
- 沙子 shāzi sand
- 沙漠 shāmò desert
- 出发 chūfā to set out
- 发 fā to send; to hand out
- 发现 fāxiàn to discover; to find
- 头发 tóufa hair
- 发表 fābiǎo to publish; to express publicly
- 发出 fāchū to give off; to send out
- 发达 fādá developed; advanced
- 发动 fādòng to start; to launch
- 发明 fāmíng to invent; invention
- 发生 fāshēng to happen; to occur