沙滩
shātān · HSK 7
sandy beach
🏖️ 沙 = sand + 滩 = shore; together the sandy strip where water meets land
沙 means sand (note the 氵 water radical, since sand piles up along water). 滩 also carries 氵 and means a shoal or shore flat. Stack them and you get the sandy beach where the tide spreads out.