(yán)

Salt.

How 鹽 is written

Strokes
24
Radical
— minister/official
Traditional
Simplified

Components

  • minister/official
  • 丿 bend
  • one
  • salt
  • dish

Common words using 鹽

亞硝酸鹽 yàxiāosuānyán
nitrite
柴米油鹽 cháimǐyóuyán
lit. firewood, rice, oil and salt; fig. life's daily necessities
海鹽 hǎiyán
Haiyan county in Jiaxing 嘉興|嘉兴[Jia1 xing1], Zhejiang
無機鹽 wújīyán
inorganic salt
粗鹽 cūyán
coarse salt; rock salt
食鹽 shíyán
edible salt
鹽城 yánchéng
Yancheng prefecture level city in Jiangsu
鹽水 yánshuǐ
Yanshui town in Tainan county 台南縣|台南县[Tai2 nan2 xian4], Taiwan
岩鹽 yányán
rock salt
浴鹽 yùyán
bath salts
海鹽縣 hǎiyánxiàn
Haiyan county in Jiaxing 嘉興|嘉兴[Jia1 xing1], Zhejiang
硅酸鹽 guīsuānyán
silicate

鹽 in a sentence

請把鹽傳給我。

Qǐng bǎ yán chuán gěi wǒ.

“Please pass me the salt.”

How common is 鹽?

鹽 is the 1,882nd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 96.7% of all running text.

Characters that appear with 鹽

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