沙钱

沙錢
shāqián
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 sand dollar (flat burrowing sea urchin)

Examples

HSK 7-9
Wǒmen zài tuìcháo hòu de shātān shàng jiǎn dào le jǐ zhī shāqián.
We picked up several sand dollars on the beach after the tide went out.
HSK 7-9
Shāqián shíjìshang shì yī zhǒng biǎnpíng de hǎidǎn.
Sand dollars are actually a type of flat sea urchin.

Tips

memory
Calque of English 'sand dollar' - the dried white skeleton is round and flat like an old silver coin, with a five-petal pattern on top. (In Classical Chinese 沙钱 can also mean a poor-quality copper coin - context disambiguates.)

Stroke Order

shā
qián