Hanja Analyzer
塩

塩 — yeom

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
소금 염
Romanization
yeom
English
salt
Mandarin
yán
Japanese on'yomi
エン
Japanese kun'yomi
しお
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Grade 4
Newspaper frequency
#1,148 of 2,500
Strokes
13
Variant forms
鹽
Radical
土 (32, 10 residual)
Unicode
U+5869

Japanese words with 塩

  • 塩しお salt; common salt; table salt
  • 塩素えんそ chlorine (Cl)
  • 塩分えんぶん salt; salt content; amount of salt
  • 塩化えんか chloridation; salification; chloride
  • 食塩しょくえん table salt
  • 塩基えんき base
  • 塩田えんでん saltpan; field for drying salt
  • 塩化ビニールえんかビニール vinyl chloride; chloroethylene
  • 塩水しおみず salt water; brine
  • 減塩げんえん reduction of salt; sodium restriction
  • 塩漬けしおづけ pickling in salt; food preserved in salt; holding on to (shares, land, etc.) for an extended period until its value increases
  • 塩焼きしおやき grilling (fish) with salt; broiling with salt; boiling seawater to get salt

Other hanja read “염”

Other hanja with radical 土

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