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砂 kanji
sand
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 9
- School grade
- Grade 6 (elementary school)
On readings
サシャ
Kun readings
すな
Words with 砂
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N5砂糖Popularsugar
- N3砂漠Populardesert
- —砂丘Popularsand dune; sand hill
- —砂防Popularerosion control
- —サハラ砂漠PopularSahara Desert
- —黄砂yellow sand; yellow dust; Asian dust; dust carried on high winds from Mongolia, northern China, and Kazakhstan; loess; desert
- —砂岩sandstone
- —砂金gold dust
- —砂州sandbar; sandbank; shoal
- —砂鉄iron sand; magnetite sand
- —砂嘴spit; sandspit
- —砂礫pebbles
- —流砂quicksand
- —砂上(built) on sand
- —砂土sand
- —砂塵cloud of dust; sandstorm
- —漂砂drift sand
- —熱砂hot sand
- —沈砂grit
- —緑砂greensand