鹹 (xián)
Salty.
How 鹹 is written
- Strokes
- 20
- Radical
- 鹵 — salt
- Traditional
- 鹹
- Simplified
- 咸
Common words using 鹹
- 鹹肉 xiánròu
- bacon; salt-cured meat
- 鹹菜 xiáncài
- salted vegetables; pickles
- 鹹魚 xiányú
- salted fish
- 鹹水 xiánshuǐ
- salt water; brine
- 鹹水湖 xiánshuǐhú
- salt lake
- 鹹淡 xiándàn
- salty and unsalty (flavors); degree of saltiness; brackish (water)
- 鹹澀 xiánsè
- salty and bitter; acerbic
- 鹹鴨蛋 xiányādàn
- salted duck egg
鹹 in a sentence
這碗湯太鹹了，我喝不下去。
Zhè wǎn tāng tài xián le, wǒ hē bú xiàqù.
“This soup is too salty, I can't drink it.”
How common is 鹹?
鹹 is the 2,520th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 98.5% of all running text.
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