莎
suōshā

kind of sedge grass

莎 suō frequency
sedge proper name
used in 莎草 suō​cǎo (sedge grass)

河滩上随处可见这种叫作莎的植物。

hé​tān shàng suí​chù kě jiàn zhè zhǒng jiào​zuò suō de zhí​wù.

This plant called 'sha' (sedge) can be seen everywhere on the river bank.

莎 shā
katydid proper name
a type of long-horned grasshopper of the family Tettigoniidae

夏天的夜晚，田野里的莎鸡不停地发出清脆的叫声。

xià​tiān de yè​wǎn, tián​yě lǐ de shā​jī bù​tíng de fā​chū qīng​cuì de jiào​shēng.

On summer nights, the katydids in the fields chirp incessantly and clearly.

phonetic proper name
character used for the sound 'sha' in the transliteration of foreign names

莎拉在这个周末邀请我们去她家参加生日派对。

Shā​lā zài zhè gè zhōu​mò yāo​qǐng wǒ​men qù tā jiā cān​jiā shēng​rì pài​duì.

Sarah invited us to her house for a birthday party this weekend.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,125th most common 31.0 per million
Movie subtitles
1,054th most common 94.0 per million appears in 14% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
17.7 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
11.7 per million

Details
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+838E

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)