HSK 5 · Nature

沙滩 shātān “beach” in Chinese

Traditional 沙灘

What 沙滩 means

  1. beach
  2. sandy shore

Measure word 片 piàn · 一片沙滩 yí piàn shātān

How to say 沙滩

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale沙shā1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale滩tān1st tone, high and level

沙滩 in a sentence

  1. 孩子们喜欢在沙滩上玩。

    Háizimen xǐhuan zài shātān shàng wán.

    Children love playing on the beach.

    Sentence #839554 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  2. 我要去沙滩，你呢？

    Wǒ yào qù shātān, nǐ ne?

    I’m going to the beach. What about you?

    Sentence #6197306 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 你能听到沙滩上海浪的声音吗？

    Nǐ néng tīngdào shātān shàng hǎilàng de shēngyīn ma?

    Can you hear the noise of the waves on the beach?

    Sentence #1928595 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 沙滩 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 沙 (shā) with each of its parts in a different colour
沙shāgranule
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 少few · shǎoSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 少 (shǎo) hints at the sound. Compare it with shā.

The character 滩 (tān) with each of its parts in a different colour
滩tānbeach
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐ
  • 难hard · nán

How to write 沙滩

沙 7 strokes · 滩 13 strokes

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

Words related to 沙滩

Words with 沙

沙发shāfā · sofa沙漠shāmò · desert

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FAQs

沙滩 (shātān) means “beach” or “sandy shore”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it shātān: shā with a 1st tone, then tān with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 沙滩 is written 沙灘. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 片 (piàn). For example, one beach is 一片沙滩 (yí piàn shātān).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type shatan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 沙滩 from the suggestions. Typing shatan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
沙滩 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.