滩 — Chinese character
滩
tān
rapids; sandbar, shoal
- Pinyin
- tān
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 13
- Components
- 氵 难
- Formation
- ideographic — Difficult 难 waters 氵 to navigate; 难 also provides the pronunciation
- Traditional
- 灘
Common words with 滩
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 海滩 (海灘) | hǎi tān | beach; measure word: 片 (piàn) |
| 沙滩 (沙灘) | shā tān | beach; sandy shore |
| 滩涂 (灘塗) | tān tú | mudflat |
| 浅滩 (淺灘) | qiǎn tān | shallows; shoal |
| 滩头 (灘頭) | tān tóu | beach; sand bank |
| 河滩 (河灘) | hé tān | river bank; river shore; strand |
| 抢滩 (搶灘) | qiǎng tān | to make an amphibious assault; to seize a beachhead |
| 沙滩排球 (沙灘排球) | shā tān pái qiú | beach volleyball |
| 河漫滩 (河漫灘) | hé màn tān | floodplain |
| 险滩 (險灘) | xiǎn tān | shoals; rapids; treacherous section of a river |
| 暗滩 (暗灘) | àn tān | hidden shoal |
| 滩头堡 (灘頭堡) | tān tóu bǎo | beachhead (military) |
English words written with 滩
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.