Beach in Chinese (Mandarin): 海滩 (hǎitān)

海滩
hǎitān
beach
- Simplified
- 海滩
- Traditional
- 海灘
- Pinyin
- hǎitān
- Typed as
- haitan
Use it in a sentence
夏天我们去海滩玩。
夏天我們去海灘玩。
In summer we go to the beach to play.
The characters in 海滩
海
Sea. 氵 (water) is on the left.
10 strokes
滩 / 灘
A beach or shore. 氵 (water) is on the left.
13 strokes
海滩 is the "sea shore". Sand is 沙子 (shāzi), and a sandy beach is 沙滩 (shātān).
More examples with 海滩
我在海滩上堆沙堡。
我在海灘上堆沙堡。
Wǒ zài hǎitān shang duī shābǎo.
I build a sandcastle on the beach.
海滩上有很多贝壳。
海灘上有很多貝殼。
Hǎitān shang yǒu hěn duō bèiké.
There are lots of shells on the beach.
How to write 海滩 in Chinese
Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.
海 10 strokes
滩 13 strokes
In Traditional characters:
灘 22 strokes
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