鹽

See also 塩, and 盐

Translingual

shinjitai	塩
simplified	盐
traditional	鹽

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 監 + semantic 鹵 (“halogen”)

Han character

鹽 (radical 197 鹵+13, 24 strokes, cangjie input 尸田月廿 (SWBT), four-corner 7810₇)

1. salt

Descendants

• 塩 盐

References

• KangXi: page 1508, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47579
• Dae Jaweon: page 2036, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2574, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9E7D

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Cantonese

Hanzi

鹽 (simplified 盐, Yale yim4)

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Japanese

Kanji

鹽

Readings

• On: えん (en)
• Kun: しお (shio)

• shinjitai equivalent: 塩

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Korean

Hanja

鹽
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 염 (revised: yeom, McCune-Reischauer: yŏm, Yale: yem)

• Name (hangeul): 소금 염()

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Mandarin

Hanzi

鹽 (simplified 盐, pinyin yán (yan2), Wade-Giles yen²), yàn

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Middle Chinese

Han character

鹽 (iɛm, iɛ̀m)

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Vietnamese

Han character

鹽 (diêm)