The kanji 塩: meaning, readings and stroke order

塩

Meaning: salt
On reading: エン en
Kun reading: しお shio
Strokes: 13
Radical: 土 earth
Level: Level 4 · grade 4
Old form: 鹽

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: muối (diêm)
Japanese: しお。
Korean: 소금 (염)
Chinese: 盐

Readings, words and example sentences

エン en · on reading · less common

塩えん分ぶん
salt (in food)
塩えん分ぶんをとりすぎないようにします。
I try not to eat too much salt.

しお shio · kun reading

塩しお
salt
スープに 塩しおを入れます。
I put salt in the soup.

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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.