HSK 5 · Adjectives

傻 shǎ “foolish” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 傻 means

  1. foolish

How to say 傻

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale傻shǎ3rd tone, dipping

傻 in a sentence

  1. 我不像你想的那么傻。

    Wǒ bú xiàng nǐ xiǎng de nàme shǎ.

    I’m not as silly as you think.

    Sentence #1317035 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 你肯定认为我傻。

    Nǐ kěndìng rènwéi wǒ shǎ.

    You must think I’m stupid.

    Sentence #5630444 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 你看上去很傻。

    Nǐ kànshangqu hěn shǎ.

    You look silly.

    Sentence #404464 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 傻 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 傻 (shǎ) with each of its parts in a different colour
傻shǎfoolish
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 囟top of the head · xìn
  • 八eight · bā
  • 夂go · zhǐ

How to write 傻

傻 13 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

傻 (shǎ) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 傻 (shǎ). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 傻

More words: Adjectives

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FAQs

傻 (shǎ) means “foolish”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it shǎ: shǎ with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 傻 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type sha with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 傻 from the suggestions. Typing sha into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
傻 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.