DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

沙田

Mandarin · pinyin Shā tián

Sha Tin town in New Territories, Hong Kong

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

沙: shā · sand, gravel, pebbles; granulated
田: tián · field, arable land, cultivated

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

1–2 · Sha1 tian2

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

2character links

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

沙田 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗

Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 7 senses · 1 Cantonese reading

Rime Cantonese 粵拼

saa1 tin4

Cantonese word readings for 沙田. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

CanCLID contributors · CC BY 4.0 · source & license · Data pack

Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

noun

farmland converted from a sandflat

name

Sha Tin (a place in the New Territories, Hong Kong)
(～區) Sha Tin (a district of Hong Kong)
(～鎮) Shatian Town (various towns in China)
(～鎮) Shatian Town (various towns in China) — (～鎮) Shatian (a town in Dongguan, Guangdong, China)
(～鄉) Shatian (a township in Ningxiang, Changsha, Hunan, China)
(～村) Shatian (a village in Rong County, Guangxi, China)

Source page · dump 2026-09-02 · Contributors & history

Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source & license · Data pack