薩

薩 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+14, 20 strokes, cangjie input 廿弓中一 (TNLM), four-corner 4421₄, composition ⿱艹隡)

• 𡄳, 𢹵, 𪎅, 𧃯, 𮓃, 𮓌

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1062, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32189
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3309, character 5
• Unihan data for U+85A9

Evolved from some variant of 薛.

The surname originated from the Hui artist 薩都剌 (Sadula) in Yuan dynasty and was clipping of his original name.

薩

1. short for 菩薩／菩萨 (púsà)
2. a surname

   薩鎮冰／萨镇冰  ―  Sà Zhènbīng  ―  Sa Zhenbing (prominent Chinese admiral of the late Qing dynasty and the early Republic of China)

• “薩”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

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• Go-on: さち (sachi)
• Kan-on: さつ (satsu)
• Kun: すくう (sukuu, 薩う)

• IPA^(key): [sa̠t͡sɨ]

薩(さつ) • (satsu) ^{←さつ (satu)?}

1. short for 土佐 (Tosa, “Tosa (a former province of Japan)”)
2. (history) short for 薩摩藩 (Satsuma han, Satsuma Domain, a former domain in Japan)

   薩(さっ)長(ちょう)

   Satchō

   Satsuma Domain and Chōshū Domain

薩 • (sal) (hangeul 살, revised sal, McCune–Reischauer sal, Yale sal)

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薩: Hán Nôm readings: tát

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