Jisho

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13 strokes
Radical:
earth
Parts:
Variants:
salt
Kun:
しお
On:
エン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N2
1148 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 塩 【エン】 salt (e.g. sodium chloride, calcium sulfate, etc.), chloride
  • 塩化 【エンカ】 chloridation, salification, chloride
  • 減塩 【ゲンエン】 reduction of salt, sodium restriction
  • 岩塩 【ガンエン】 halite, rock salt

Kun reading compounds

  • 塩 【しお】 salt, common salt, table salt, sodium chloride, hardship, toil, trouble, saltiness, cold, unwelcoming, indifferent
  • 塩田 【えんでん】 saltpan, field for drying salt
  • 岩塩 【がんえん】 halite, rock salt
  • 手塩 【てしお】 table salt, small plate

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yan2
Korean:
yeom

Spanish

  • sal

Portuguese

  • Sal

French

  • sel
354 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
451 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
428 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1058 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1125 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
730 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
439 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1846 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1101 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1152 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
924 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
385 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
774 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
456 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
578 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1470 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
5382 Morohashi
631 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1075 New Nelson (John Haig)
1458 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1568 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
603 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1474 2001 Kanji
3b10.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-3-10 SKIP code
4811.7 Four corner code
1-17-86 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5869 Unicode hex code

13 strokes (also 14)
Radical:
eat, food 食 (飠)
Parts:

Speed

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Kun reading compounds

  • 飴 【あめ】 (hard) candy, toffee, rice-sugar, sugar made from the starch of rice, potatoes, etc., amber, yellowish-brown
  • 飴色 【あめいろ】 amber, yellowish-brown
  • べっこう飴 【べっこうあめ】 hard candy, candy suckers molded on a griddle, tortoise-shell candy
  • ぶどう飴 【ぶどうあめ】 candy-coated grapes on a stick

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yi2
Korean:
i, sa

Spanish

  • golosina
  • dulce de arroz

Portuguese

French

5160 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2250 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
44080X Morohashi
6682 New Nelson (John Haig)
2801 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2817 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
8b5.2 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-5 SKIP code
8376.0 Four corner code
1-16-27 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
98f4 Unicode hex code