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浜

Beach
Stroke count: 10

Readings

On readingヒン
Kun readingはま
  1. seashore
  2. captured pieces
  3. captured stones
  4. yokohama

Synonyms

横浜

Radicals and components

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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water (水) · water droplets (氵) · water pistol (氵) · soldier · hill · axe (斤) · one (一) · floor · animal legs (儿) · eight (八)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 1430

Compound words

彼は浜辺へ行き、海上はるか彼方の水平線を眺めた。
He went to the beach, and looked far across the sea toward the horizon.tatoeba
波が浜に打ち寄せている。
Waves are beating the shore.tatoeba

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

砂浜に車で乗り入れてはいけません。
すなはまにくるまでのりいれてはいけません。You can't drive a car onto the sandy beach.
横浜市では毎年がん検診が実施される
よこはましではまいとしがんけんしんがじっしされるYokohama implements cancer screening every year.
東横キッズというのは東京や横浜にいる子どもたちのことですか?
ひがしよこきっずというのはとうきょうやよこはまにいるこどもたちのことですか?Are the "Toyoko Kids" children in Tokyo and Yokohama?

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke Order

10 strokes

Beach. 氵 (water) + 兵 — the shore by the water. 浜辺 — beach.

Practice Writing

Practice Writing 浜

Draw with a guide, then from memory — checked at every step