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塩 kanji
salt
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 13
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
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On readings
エン
Kun readings
しお
Variant forms
鹽Words with 塩
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N2食塩Populartable salt
- N1塩salt (e.g. sodium chloride, calcium sulfate, etc.); chloride
- —塩化Popularchloridation; salification; chloride
- —塩基Popularbase
- —塩酸Popularhydrochloric acid
- —塩素Popularchlorine (Cl)
- —塩田Popularsaltpan; field for drying salt
- —塩分Popularsalt; salt content; amount of salt; salinity
- —岩塩Popularhalite; rock salt
- —塩梅seasoning; flavour; flavor; serving one's lord well (of a retainer)
- —塩類salt; salts
- —無塩salt free; no-salt; unsalted; raw fish; fresh fish; purity; naive person; ugly woman
- —塩害salt damage (from seawater, sea air, etc.)
- —減塩reduction of salt; sodium restriction
- —米塩rice and salt; the necessities of life
- —製塩salt making
- —塩税salt tax
- —塩蔵preserving in salt; salting down
- —正塩normal salt
- —塩浴salt bath