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

Speed

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

23 strokes
Radical:
fish
Parts:
salmon trout
Kun:
ます
On:
ソンセンザン
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2482 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

Kun reading compounds

  • 鱒 【ます】 trout, sea trout
  • 鱒の介 【ますのすけ】 chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), king salmon, tyee salmon, Columbia River salmon, black salmon, chub salmon, hook bill salmon, winter salmon, spring salmon, quinnat salmon, blackmouth
  • 塩鱒 【しおます】 salted mackerel
  • 小豆鱒 【あずきます】 rock cod, black-saddled grouper

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
zun1, zun4
Korean:
jun

Spanish

  • trucha salmón

Portuguese

French

5332 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2371 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1667 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
46492X Morohashi
6921 New Nelson (John Haig)
2814 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2829 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
11a12.6 The Kanji Dictionary
1-11-12 SKIP code
2834.6 Four corner code
1-43-80 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9c52 Unicode hex code