沙子 (shā zi) means “sand; grit”. It is an HSK 3 Chinese word in the HSK 3.0 vocabulary.
Measure word: 粒,把
Practice each character:
海边有很多沙子。
Hǎibiān yǒu hěn duō shāzi.
There is a lot of sand at the beach.
Updated: 2026-07-18