shǎ

Traditional: 傻

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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

Stroke order for 傻

Examples

Do not be silly.

He did something very stupid.

She smiled in a silly way.

How could I be so foolish.

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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