鲨 (shā): shark
鲨 (shā) is a Chinese character meaning “shark.” Classified as HSK Level 6 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 沙 (phonetic) and 鱼 (semantic). It ranks #2953 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 鲨 fish. Its radical form 鱼 (fish) appears in many related characters such as 鱼 (yú, fish), 鲜 (xiān, fresh), 鲁 (lǔ, Shandong, foolish).
Definitions
- shark
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 鲨
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大白鲨 | dà bái shā | great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) |
| 食人鲨 | shí rén shā | man-eating shark |
| 巨牙鲨 | jù yá shā | megalodon (Carcharodon megalodon) |
| 双髻鲨 | shuāng jì shā | hammerhead shark |
| 巨齿鲨 | jù chǐ shā | see 巨牙鯊|巨牙鲨[ju4 ya2 sha1] |
| 锤头鲨 | chuí tóu shā | a hammerhead shark |
| 鼬鲨 | yòu shā | tiger shark |
| 姥鲨 | lǎo shā | basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) |
| 鲸鲨 | jīng shā | whale shark (Rhincodon typus) |
鲨 appears in 10 compound words: 10 as the first character, 90 as the last, and 0 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 鲨 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
鲨鱼是海洋中的顶级掠食者，非常凶猛。
Shāyú shì hǎiyáng zhōng de dǐngjí lüèshí zhě, fēicháng xiōngměng.
Sharks are top predators in the ocean and are very fierce.
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xiàng xún 弋 fēi dàn què gēng biàn yí ! ōu zhōu hǔ shā shǒu fēi shè chéng 1 0 0 0 gōng lǐ nǐ yuán wū
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1 4 , 3 8 0 yuán ! nán fāng fēi shā 2 5 0 shàng shì , zhāng xuě duó guàn ràng guó rén kàn dào gēng hǎo de guó chǎn
郭正亮节目中突“颜面神经失调”?鲨鲨主播曝医师诊断
guō zhèng liàng jié mù zhōng tū yán miàn shén jīng shī diào ? shā shā zhǔ bō pù yī shī zhěn duàn
Did Guo Zhengliang Suddenly Suffer from "Facial Nerve Paralysis" on His Show? Host Sha Sha Reveals Doctor's Diagnosis
李贞秀频暴走 陈凤馨点名民众党:把她丢到鲨鱼堆不尽公平
lǐ zhēn xiù pín bào zǒu chén fèng xīn diǎn míng mín zhòng dǎng : bǎ tā diū dào shā yú duī bù jǐn gōng píng
Lee Jeong-su frequently loses her temper; Chen Fengxin calls out the People's Party: "Throwing her to the sharks wouldn't be fair"
明星投资人“鲨鱼战士”:荷莫兹海峡将“巴拿马运河化” ...
míng xīng tóu zī rén shā yú zhàn shì : hé mò zī hǎi xiá jiāng bā ná mǎ yùn hé huà . . .
Celebrity investor "Shark Warrior": The Strait of Hormuz will become the "Panama Canal" ...
鲨鱼皮比金枪鱼皮粗糙多了。
Shāyú pí bǐ jīnqiāngyú pí cūcāo duō le.
The skin of a shark is much rougher than that of a tuna fish.
鲨鱼对电子信号和噪音很敏感。
Shāyú duì diànzǐ xìnhào hé zàoyīn hěn mǐngǎn.
Sharks are sensitive to electrical impulses as well as sound.
Character Family
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