はま

beach, seashore

Also:captured pieces, Yokohama, riverbank

What does mean?

is a Japanese noun meaning beach, seashore in English. It can also be translated as captured pieces, Yokohama, riverbank depending on context. It is written as in kanji, はま in hiragana, and hama in romaji. This word is part of JLPT N1 vocabulary.

Example sentence

私たちはへ泳ぎに行った。

We went swimming at the beach.