鲨

鯊
shā
#3,656 most
frequent character
shark

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

鲨 shā combines 沙 sand, which also gives the sound, with 鱼 fish. It first named a small stream fish that blows sand. The sense broadened to fish, then to shark.

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