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鹹
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咸
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salty

HSK 10
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xián
カン、ダイ
から.い、しおからい、しおけ、せいしゅ
함
Phonosemantic compound. 鹵 represents the meaning and 咸 represents the sound.
Components
Traditional (鹹)
鹵 brine+ 咸 everybody =
鹹 salty
鹵 Meaning component
brine
咸 Phonetic component
Xián everybody
surname Xian
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Simplified (咸)
戌 11th terrestrial branch+ 口 mouth =
咸 all
戌 Iconic component
xū 11th terrestrial branch
Depicts an axe.
口
kǒu mouth
Notes
Similar Characters
滷 thick (trad)鹼 alkali (trad)鹽 salt (trad)覃 reach减 subtract (simp)喊 yell堿 salty (iii)感 feel減 reduce (trad/jp)碱 lye (simp)箴 probe緘 bind (trad)缄 close (simp)觱 tartar horn
Historical Evolution
Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Seal
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
Clerical
Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
鹹
Regular
Modern
Chinese
咸 / 鹹 [xián]
salted; salty; stingy; miserly
Example Sentences
CHINESE WORDS (20)
咸鱼 [xián​yú] #25,645
salted fish
咸菜 [xián​cài] #33,555
salted vegetables
咸肉 [xián​ròu] #25,564
bacon
咸水 [xián​shuǐ] #36,828
salt water
咸淡 [xián​dàn] #48,421
salty and unsalty (flavors)
咸水湖 [xián​shuǐ​hú] #54,037
salt lake
咸海 [Xián​Hǎi] #58,838
Aral Sea
咸盐 [xián​yán] #63,201
salt (colloquial)
腌咸 [yān​xián]
to pickle with salt
咸水妹 [xián​shuǐ​mèi]
(dialect) prostitute from Guangdong (esp. one in Shanghai before the Revolution) (loanword from "handsome maid")
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JAPANESE WORDS (12)
塩気 [しおけ] #30,837
saltiness
⭐ 塩辛い [しおからい] #33,770
salty (taste)
明日葉 [あしたば] #102,492
Angelica keiskei (species of angelica, a herb of the parsley family)
かん水 [かんすい] #120,874
lye water (for making Chinese noodles)
鹹水 [かんすい] #141,554
brackish water
鹹味 [かんみ] #218,500
saltiness
鹹湖 [かんこ] #230,184
salt lake
鹹水魚 [かんすいぎょ] #266,210
saltwater fish
半鹹水 [はんかんすい]
brackish water
辛塩 [からしお]
salt
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