沙滩

沙滩 shātān in a sentence

Sand bar (sand beach)

Full dictionary entry HSK 5 3 sentences

沙滩 (shātān) means Sand bar (sand beach). Below are 3 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

这片 沙滩 很干净。

Zhè piàn shātān hěn gānjìng.

This beach is very clean.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 沙滩

孩子们在 沙滩 上玩。

Háizimen zài shātān shàng wán.

The children are playing on the beach.

Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 沙滩

孩子们在 沙滩 上捡了满满一袋贝壳。

Háizimen zài shātān shang jiǎn le mǎnmǎn yí dài bèiké.

The children picked up a whole bag of shells on the beach.

Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 贝壳

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How is 沙滩 used in a sentence?

This page shows 3 sentences using 沙滩 (shātān, "Sand bar (sand beach)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Is 沙滩 an HSK word?

Yes — 沙滩 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.

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