滩
tān HSK7

beach, bank, shoal

滩 (灘) tān
pool measure word
classifier for spread-out liquids such as pools or puddles

地上有一滩水。

dì shàng yǒu yī tān shuǐ.

There is a puddle of water on the ground.

beach noun
beach, shoal, or sandy shore by a body of water

退潮后，渔民们来到泥滩上捡海螺。

tuì​cháo hòu, yú​mín men lái​dào ní​tān shàng jiǎn hǎi​luó.

After the tide went out, fishermen went to the mudflats to pick up sea snails.

rapids noun
a shallow, fast-flowing part of a river

船只小心地驶过险滩。

chuán​zhī xiǎo​xīn de shǐ guò xiǎn​tān.

The boat carefully navigated through the dangerous rapids.

Cross-References

Classifier

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,062nd most common 33.8 per million
Movie subtitles
1,545th most common 39.8 per million appears in 15% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
4.20 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
8.64 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
灘
Strokes
13
Unicode
U+6EE9

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)