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鹽
🇹🇼🇭🇰🇰🇷
盐
🇨🇳
塩
🇯🇵

salt

HSK 10 N2
Objects →Food
yán
エン
しお
염
Phonosemantic compound. 監 represents the sound and 鹵 represents the meaning.
Components
Traditional (鹽)
監 supervise+ 鹵 brine =
鹽 salt
監 Phonetic component
supervise
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鹵 Meaning component
brine
salt
Simplified (盐)
監 supervise+ 卜 divination =
盐 salt
監 Phonetic component
supervise
Shorthand for the sound component 監 in the traditional character 鹽.
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卜 Simplified component
bo divination
see 蘿蔔|萝卜[luó​bo]
Shorthand for the meaning component 鹵 in the traditional character 鹽.
Japanese (塩)
土 earth+ 𬐚 a wine-jar =
塩 salt
土
土
earth
𬐚
𬐚
a wine-jar
Notes
Similar Characters
尷 abashed (trad)檻 threshold (trad)濫 indiscriminate (trad/jp)盐 salt (iii) (simp)籃 basket (trad)艦 warship (trad/jp)藍 blue (trad/jp)襤 ragged (trad)覽 view (trad)鑑 probe (trad/jp)鑒 appraise (trad)滷 thick (trad)鹹 salty (trad)鹼 alkali (trad)覃 reach
Historical Evolution
Bronze Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Bronze
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Bronze Early Warring States (~400 BC)
Bronze
Early Warring States (~400 BC)
Seal Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Clerical
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Seal Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Seal
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
盐
Regular
Modern
Chinese
盐 / 鹽 [yán]
salt; CL:粒[lì]
Japanese
塩 しお 同音

noun

  1. salt; common salt; table salt; sodium chloride
  2. hardship; toil; trouble
  3. food saltiness

n-pref

  1. colloquial cold; unwelcoming; indifferent
塩 えん 同音

noun

  1. chemistry salt (e.g. sodium chloride, calcium sulfate, etc.)
  2. chemistry abbrev. chloride
Example Sentences
🇯🇵 (1)
このスープは塩が少し足りない。
This soup wants a bit of salt.
Japanese Names
塩 えん
En surname
塩 しお
Shio female given namesurname
CHINESE WORDS (90)
盐水 [Yán​shuǐ] #12,940
Yanshui town in Tainan county 台南縣|台南县[Tái​nán​xiàn], Taiwan
盐湖城 [Yán​hú​chéng] #11,324
Salt Lake City, capital of Utah
盐酸 [yán​suān] #17,749
hydrochloric acid HCl
食盐 [shí​yán] #42,854
edible salt
生理盐水 [shēng​lǐ​yán​shuǐ] #13,460
saline (medicine)
硝酸盐 [xiāo​suān​yán] #32,590
nitrate
盐城 [Yán​chéng] #24,443
Yancheng prefecture level city in Jiangsu
盐湖 [yán​hú] #55,474
salt lake
硅酸盐 [guī​suān​yán] #42,576
silicate
盐巴 [yán​bā] #39,023
table salt
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JAPANESE WORDS (200)
⭐ 塩 [しお] #4,244
salt
潮風 [しおかぜ] #18,157
sea breeze
⭐ 塩味 [しおあじ] #26,769
salty taste
⭐ 塩分 [えんぶん] #28,311
salt
塩漬け [しおづけ] #30,331
pickling in salt
塩気 [しおけ] #30,837
saltiness
塩焼き [しおやき] #32,533
grilling (fish) with salt
⭐ 塩辛い [しおからい] #33,770
salty (taste)
⭐ 塩水 [しおみず] #36,433
salt water
⭐ 岩塩 [がんえん] #38,335
halite
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KOREAN WORDS (2)
식염
table salt
염전
saltpan; salt farm