yán

salt

Phonosemantic compound. represents the sound and represents the meaning.

Components
監 sound component

  Sound component

jiānjiàn

  

watch carefully

鹵 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

salt

salt

Evolution

鹽 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
鹽 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鹽 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
鹽 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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yán

(same as of U+5869 ) salt; salt; CL:[lì]

Most common words with 鹽
Freq.
Word
Meaning

salt

盐水

Yanshui town in Tainan county 台南縣|台南县[Tái​nán​xiàn], Taiwan

盐湖城

Salt Lake City, capital of Utah

盐酸

hydrochloric acid HCl

食盐

edible salt

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ɢr][o]m

yem

yán

salt (n.)

*[ɢr][o]m-s

yemH

yàn

salt (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.7847% of movies

2064th most common character in movies

1885th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

24

Simplified

Unicode

U+9E7D

Shuowen

“鹽,鹹也。从鹵,監聲。古者宿沙初作煮海鹽。”


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