莎
shā
#2,121 most
frequent character
katydid (family Tettigoniidae)
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
莎 joins 艹, plants, with 沙 shā as a sound part. The plant part gives the first meaning, a kind of nutgrass or flatsedge. Read suō, the character is borrowed only to write sounds, with no link to plants.
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