痧 — Chinese character
痧
shā
cholera; colic
- Pinyin
- shā
- Radical
- 104 ⽧ (Sickness)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 疒 沙
- Formation
- pictophonetic — sickness; meaning component 疒; sound component 沙
Common words with 痧
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 刮痧 | guā shā | gua sha (technique in TCM) |
| 喉痧 | hóu shā | scarlet fever |
| 揪痧 | jiū shā | folk remedy involving repeatedly pinching the neck, throat, back etc to increase blood flow to the area and relieve inflammation |
| 瘪螺痧 (癟螺痧) | biě luó shā | cholera (with dehydration) |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.