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滩

tān

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 character level 7-9 Character Traditional 灘 Measure word 片

What 滩 means

1. beach
2. shoal
3. rapids
4. classifier for liquids: pool, puddle

Example sentences

• 我在沙滩
  I'm at the beach.
• 我在海滩。
  I'm at the beach.
• 去海滩走哪条路？
  Which way is the beach?
• 我在沙滩打排球。
  I'm on the beach playing volleyball.
• 这个沙滩挤满了游客
  Zhège shātān jǐmǎn le yóukè
  The beach was packed with tourists.
• 沙滩上的人非常少。
  There were few people on the beach.

Words starting with 滩

• 滩头tān tóubeach; sand bank
• 滩头堡tān tóu bǎobeachhead (military)
• 滩涂tān túmudflat

Words containing 滩

• 沙滩shā tānbeach; sandy shore
• 海滩hǎi tānbeach
• 外滩Wài tānthe Bund, a waterfront promenade in central Shanghai, running along the western bank of…
• 河滩hé tānriver bank; river shore; strand
• 戈壁滩Gē bì tānGobi desert
• 险滩xiǎn tānshoals; rapids; treacherous section of a river
• 冷水滩区Lěng shuǐ tān QūLengshuitan, a district of Yongzhou City 永州市
• 沙滩排球shā tān pái qiúbeach volleyball
• 红谷滩区Hóng gǔ tān QūHonggutan, a district of Nanchang City 南昌市
• 暗滩àn tānhidden shoal
• 古董滩Gǔ dǒng tānGudong desert or Antiques desert at Han dynasty Yangguan pass 阳关
• 沿滩区Yán tān QūYantan, a district of Zigong City 自贡市
• 河漫滩hé màn tānfloodplain
• 戈壁荒滩Gē bì huāng tānbarren sands of the Gobi desert
• 沙滩鞋shā tān xiébeach shoes; wetsuit booties
• 抢滩qiǎng tānto make an amphibious assault; to seize a beachhead; to gain a foothold in (a new market)
• 盐滩yán tānsalt flats; salt lake
• 浅滩qiǎn tānshallows; shoal; sandbar
• 白碱滩区Bái jiǎn tān QūBaijiantan, a district of Karamay City 克拉玛依市
• 白鹤滩Bái hè tānBaihetan, the name of a hydroelectric dam on the Jinsha River 金沙江
• 冷水滩Lěng shuǐ tānsee 冷水滩区
• 红谷滩Hóng gǔ tānsee 红谷滩区
• 沿滩Yán tānsee 沿滩区
• 白碱滩Bái jiǎn tānsee 白碱滩区

Characters built on 难

These share the phonetic component 难 (nán), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 摊tānto spread out; vendor's stand
• 瘫tānparalyzed

Characters that look like 滩

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 摊tānto spread out; vendor's stand
• 骗piànto cheat; to swindle; to deceive
• 撇piēto cast away; to fling aside
• 雏chú(bound form) chick; young bird
• 雉zhìringed pheasant
• 潍wéiname of a river

Sounds the same

Read tān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 摊to spread out; vendor's stand
• 贪to have a voracious desire for; to covet; greedy
• 瘫paralyzed
• 坍to collapse
• 怹he; she; (courteous, as opposed to 他
• 啴used in 啴啴

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read tān correctly.
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