(shǎ) - silly, stupid, foolish in Mandarin
shǎTraditional: 傻
Translation
silly, stupid, foolish
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the person radical 亻marks a human quality, and the right-hand element supplies the sound, giving the meaning of foolish or silly.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 亻(person radical) + phonetic element
Stroke order
傻
Examples
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Do not be silly.
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He did something very stupid.
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She smiled in a silly way.
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How could I be so foolish.
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Do not take me for a fool.
傻 (shǎ) means silly, stupid, foolish. It is a colloquial adjective for lacking sense, often used affectionately.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 傻.
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