沙尘 (沙塵)
shā chén
Pinyin

Definition

沙尘 (沙塵)
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shā chén
  1. airborne sand and dust

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

沙
Shā
  1. 1 surname Sha
沙场
shā chǎng
  1. 1 sandpit
  2. 2 battleground
  3. 3 battlefield
沙子
shā zi
  1. 1 sand
  2. 2 grit
  3. 3 classifier: 粒 lì
  4. 4 classifier: 把 bǎ
沙拉
shā lā
  1. 1 salad (loanword)
沙漠
shā mò
  1. 1 desert
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè

Idioms (9)

一盘散沙
yī pán sǎn shā
  1. 1 lit. like a sheet of loose sand
  2. 2 fig. unable to cooperate (idiom)
含沙射影
hán shā shè yǐng
  1. 1 to attack someone by innuendo (idiom)
  2. 2 to make oblique charges
  3. 3 to make insinuations
  4. 4 to insinuate
封沙育林
fēng shā yù lín
  1. 1 to plant trees in order to stabilize sand (idiom)
恒河沙数
Héng hé shā shù
  1. 1 countless as the grains of sand in the Ganges (idiom)
战死沙场
zhàn sǐ shā chǎng
  1. 1 to die in battle (idiom)

Sample Sentences

天气预报说，今天的空气质量很差。不过这可不是雾，是沙尘。
tiānqì yùbào shuō ，jīntiān de kōngqì zhìliàng hěn chà 。bùguò zhè kě bùshì wù ，shì shāchén 。
The weather report today said that the air quality was really bad. But this isn't fog, it's sand dust.
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沙尘暴，听上去就很恐怖。
shāchénbào ，tīngshàngqù jiù hěn kǒngbù 。
Sandstorms? Just the sound of it is horrible.
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最近雨水少，气候干燥。而且，我们这边靠近蒙古南部的戈壁地区，所以到了春末夏初，经常会有沙尘天气，有时还会有沙尘暴呢。
zuìjìn yǔ shuǐ shǎo ，qìhòu gānzào 。érqiě ，wǒmen zhèbiān kàojìn Ménggǔ nánbù de gēbì dìqū ，suǒyǐ dào le chūn mò xià chū ，jīngcháng huì yǒu shāchén tiānqì ，yǒushí hái huì yǒu shāchénbào ne 。
These days there isn't much rainfall and the climate is dry. Also, up here, we're right against the area of the Gobi Desert in the southern part of Mongolia, so at the end of spring and beginning of summer, there's often sand dust in the air. Sometimes there are even sandstorms.
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You're still way too relaxed about this. Can you be saying that you want to breathe filthy air all day, blowing dust devils, and drinking dirty water from the Yangtze River? You should know that 70% of the lakes in China are already polluted, and the trend for ecological protection in those lakes is extremely serious...
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