萨
sàSà HSK7

Bodhisattva, Buddhist idol

萨 (薩) sà frequency
bodhisattva noun
used in Buddhist terminology, primarily in the word 菩萨 pú​sà or as a shorthand for Bodhisattva

庙里的菩萨像雕刻得非常精美。

miào lǐ de pú sà xiàng diāo​kè de fēi​cháng jīng​měi.

The statue of the Bodhisattva in the temple is exquisitely carved.

transliteration place name
used in the phonetic transliteration of foreign names and terms

他曾在萨拉热窝居住过一段时间。

tā céng zài Sà​lā​rè​wō jū​zhù guo yī duàn shí​jiān.

He once lived in Sarajevo for a period of time.

萨 (薩) Sà
Sa proper name
surname Sa

萨先生最近发表了一篇关于经济学的新论文。

Sà xiān​sheng zuì​jìn fā​biǎo le yī piān guān​yú jīng​jì​xué de xīn lùn​wén.

Mr. Sa recently published a new paper on economics.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,046th most common 148.9 per million
Movie subtitles
774th most common 164.2 per million appears in 30% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
40.6 per million appears in 10% of films
Written text
40.1 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
薩
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+8428

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