Chinese symbol for “beachhead”
滩头堡
tān tóu bǎo
Traditional: 灘頭堡
beachhead (military)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for beachhead is 滩头堡 (tān tóu bǎo), defined as: beachhead (military).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 滩头堡.
| 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 |
| 头发 (頭髮) | tóu fa | hair (on the head) |
| 街头 (街頭) | jiē tóu | street |
| 城堡 | chéng bǎo | castle; rook (chess piece) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “beachhead”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.