Onyomi: エン · Kunyomi: しお · Meanings: salt
Kanji for salt
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塩 is made from the earth radical 土 on the left, because salt comes from the earth or from salt flats. On the right is 監, which has the idea of watching or overseeing. In ancient times, salt production was carefully controlled and supervised. So earth plus supervision came to represent salt.
Salt comes from the earth and was carefully watched over. That is 塩.
Imagine workers collecting salt from the ground (土), while an official stands nearby watching carefully (監). The white crystals they protect are 塩.
| Word | Reading | Meaning | Meta |
|---|---|---|---|
| 塩 | しお | salt, common salt, table salt, sodium chloride | common JLPT-N1 JLPT-N5 Noun |
| 塩 | えん | salt (e.g. sodium chloride, calcium sulfate, etc.) | Noun |
| 塩辛い | しおからい | salty (taste), briny | common JLPT-N2 I-adjective (keiyoushi) |
| 塩漬け | しおづけ | pickling in salt, food preserved in salt | Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verb |
| 塩分 | えんぶん | salt, salt content | common Noun |
| 塩梅 | あんばい | seasoning, flavour, flavor, taste | common Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verb |
| 塩味 | しおあじ | salty taste, saltiness | common Noun, Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no' |
| 塩水 | しおみず | salt water, brine | common Noun |
| 塩気 | しおけ | saltiness | Noun |
| 塩っぱい | しょっぱい | salty | I-adjective (keiyoushi) |