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Victoria Oury
Victoria Oury
4 years ago

When there is little (少)water (the radical) there is sand.

Hugo Obori
Hugo Obori
3 years ago

it is comprised of the water radical and little. in the desert, when there is little water, there is sand.

Nicole Cheah
Nicole Cheah
3 years ago

water radical on the left; right hand radical means less of; thus, this goes to show how there is less water; so it reminds someone of a place that is dry like a desert where there is sand

Mahrukh Shaikh
Mahrukh Shaikh
2 years ago

thinking of the beach, where there is less 少 water 水radical, there is sand (沙)

Elise Tucker
Elise Tucker
2 years ago

The way the water radical looks reminds me of all the small sand particles, and the right hand side makes me think of how all the grains of sand flow together smoothly.

Ken Saengkla
Ken Saengkla
2 years ago

There’s a water radical on the left and 少 which means less on the right, which could be said there’s less water, which means dry, making me think of sand.

Anar Chuluunbaatar
Anar Chuluunbaatar
2 years ago

it looks like all the small radicals are resembling sand pieces

Nomun Altan-Ochir
Nomun Altan-Ochir
1 year ago

The character is composed of the “氵” (shuǐ) radical on the left side, which means “water,” and the character “少” (shǎo) on the right side, which means “few” or “little.” This suggests that the character might represent a place where there is little water or a scarcity of resources.

Jinu Shim
Jinu Shim
1 year ago

The left side of the character has the water radical and the right side of the character has the character that means small.

郑惠元
郑惠元
1 year ago

Because there is a water radical, you know that this location/word would be related to either a lot of water/lack of water. And because the character on the right indicates “small,” it means a location that doesn’t have a lot of water.

Dinobi Ibegbu
Dinobi Ibegbu
1 year ago

the water radical 氵and the less or little radical shao are together meaning the little particles by the water, which is SAND.

Dinobi Ibegbu
Dinobi Ibegbu
1 year ago

the water radical 氵and the less or little radical shao are together meaning the little particles by the water, which is SAND.

Dinobi Ibegbu
Dinobi Ibegbu
1 year ago

the water radical 氵and the less or little radical shao are together meaning the little particles by the water, which is SAND.

Munkh-Erdene Altanbaatar
Munkh-Erdene Altanbaatar
1 year ago

A Smiley face which means small next to a water radical can be referred to as “SAND” next to the beach.

Dinobi Ibegbu
Dinobi Ibegbu
1 year ago

the water radical 氵and the less or little radical shao are together meaning the little particles by the water, which is SAND.

Michaella Blemur
Michaella Blemur
1 year ago

The water radical is on the left and I see a face on the right smiling. The person is smiling because they can turn water into sand~

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sondor
sondor
7 months ago

There is SAND near to the ‘little’ ‘water’

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NYU Shanghai
Sasha Churyumova
Sasha Churyumova
7 months ago

沙发 literaly means “to generate the sand”. When you spend too much time lying on sofa, you “dripping the sand” out of you (in Russian this idiom means you became pretty old and will soon turn into dust)

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NYU Shanghai
Nghia Nim
Nghia Nim
7 months ago

Something small next to water (like a river or a beach) is sand

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NYU Shanghai
Nomu
Nomu
12 days ago

to write sand, we have to remember what else is a lot on earth like the word we want to write, which is water. the front part looks like water droplets and the part on the right means small, as sands are small.

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NYU Shanghai