granule; hoarse; raspy; sand; powder; CL:粒[li4]; abbr. for Tsar or Tsarist Russia

(dialect) to sift; to sieve

Warsaw, capital of Poland

rustle

quicksand; (patisserie) (usu. attributive) semi-liquid filling (typically custard); lava

Gaza (territory adjacent to Israel and Egypt)

see 三沙市[San1 sha1 Shi4]

cinnabar (used in TCM)

muscovite, mica (used in TCM)

slushie; smoothie; crushed ice drink; frappucino

see 南沙群島|南沙群岛[Nan2 sha1 Qun2 dao3]; see 南沙區|南沙区[Nan2 sha1 Qu1]

laksa, spicy noodle soup of Southeast Asia

La Salle (used in the names of schools etc); Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (1651-1719), French priest, founder of the Brothers of the Christian Schools

laksa, spicy noodle soup of Southeast Asia

Chuansha, name of street and park in Pudong New District 浦東新區|浦东新区[Pu3 dong1 xin1 qu1], Shanghai

lacking in cohesion and unity of purpose

scattered sand; fig. lacking in cohesion or organization

submerged sandbank; submerged coral islet

river sand

silt

sea sand

sandboarding

variant of 貓砂|猫砂[mao1 sha1]

see 白沙黎族自治縣|白沙黎族自治县[Bai2 sha1 Li2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4]

silicon sand

fine sand

silkworm guano (excrement)

see 西沙區|西沙区[Xi1 sha1 Qu1]; see 西沙群島|西沙群岛[Xi1 sha1 Qun2 dao3]

sweetened bean paste

see 金沙縣|金沙县[Jin1 sha1 Xian4]

gold dust; salted egg yolk sauce

see 長沙市|长沙市[Chang2 sha1 Shi4]; see 長沙縣|长沙县[Chang2 sha1 Xian4]

sand blown by wind; sandstorm

see 龍沙區|龙沙区[Long2 sha1 Qu1]

Liao Mosha (1907-1990), journalist and communist propagandist, severely criticized and imprisoned for 10 years during the Cultural Revolution

Ganesha (the elephant-headed God in Hinduism, son of Shiva and Parvati)

red bean paste

see 英吉沙縣|英吉沙县[Ying1 ji2 sha1 Xian4]

Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Tw)

lit. like a sheet of loose sand; fig. unable to cooperate (idiom)

lit. broken halberds embedded in the sand (idiom); fig. reminder of a fierce battle; remnants of a disastrous defeat

Mogadishu, Indian ocean seaport and capital of Somalia

Formosa (Tw)

sand break (in desert environment)