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The character "萨", which is the simplified form of the traditional character "薩", primarily serves as a phonetic loan character used in transliteration, most famously in the Buddhist term "菩萨" for bodhisattva. The traditional form "薩" is structurally composed of the grass radical (艹) positioned above a complex phonetic component, while the simplified "萨" reconstructs this lower element into the components 阝 and 产, a modification that streamlines its writing without altering its fundamental phonetic function. Initially created to approximate non-native sounds, particularly from Sanskrit, the character's application gradually broadened to include other transliterated personal and place names, maintaining its role as a sound-representing graph rather than acquiring independent semantic content.
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拉萨是个美丽的城市。
他喜欢吹萨克斯。
萨满是一种宗教。
我喜欢吃萨其马。
拉萨的风景非常壮观。
萨省是加拿大的一个省份。
萨克斯的音色很优美。
萨满教在古代北方民族中很流行。