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charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *盐* | 盐* | *盐
salt / CL:
HSK 4
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *咸* | 咸* | *咸
salted / salty / stingy / miserly
HSK 4
Salt Lake City, capital of Utah
potable water (water with low salt content) / fresh water
mirabilite (Na2SO4x10H2O) / Glauber's salt
salted fish
gold dust / salted egg yolk sauce
sea salt
edible salt
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *卤* | 卤* | *卤
alkaline soil / salt / brine / halogen (chemistry) / crass / stupid
salt water / brine
salt water / brine
Lop Nor, former salt lake in Xinjiang, now a salt-encrusted lake bed
salt pork / bacon / marinaded meat / cured meat
salt lake
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *豉* | 豉* | *豉
salted fermented beans
marinated / to make by pickling, salting or curing
lit. oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar (idiom) / fig. life's daily necessities
bacon / salt-cured meat
yellow soybean paste (fermented and salted)
salted vegetables / pickles
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *焗* | 焗* | *焗
(dialect) to cook in salt or sand, inside a sealed pot / to steam / to bake
table salt
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *腌* | 腌* | *腌
to salt / to pickle / to cure (meat) / to marinate
lit. firewood, rice, oil and salt (idiom) / fig. life's daily necessities
rock salt
to pickle / cured / salted
Tsaidam or Qaidam basin (Mongolian: salt marsh), depression northeast of the Plateau of Tibet, located between the Qilian Shan and the Kunlun Shan at the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau.
pressed (dried) salted duck
inward flowing river / river flowing into desert or salt lake, e.g. Tarim river 塔里木河
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鲊* | 鲊* | *鲊
salted fish / dish made with ground vegetables, flour and other condiments
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *虀* | 虀* | *虀
fragment / salted vegetables / spices
salt from a salt lake
acid salt
alkali salt (soda, lye, calcium carbonate etc)
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *鹾* | 鹾* | *鹾
brine / salt
salt flats / salt lake
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *漤* | 漤* | *漤
to soak (fruits) in hot water or limewater to remove astringent taste / to marinate in salt etc / to pickle
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *菹* | 菹* | *菹
marshland / swamp / salted or pickled vegetables / to mince / to shred / to mince human flesh and bones / Taiwan pr. [ju1]
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *潟* | 潟* | *潟
saline land / salt marsh
open-air salt heap
yuxiang, a seasoning of Chinese cuisine that typically contains garlic, scallions, ginger, sugar, salt, chili peppers etc (Although "yuxiang" literally means "fish fragrance", it contains no seafood.)
Tsaidam or Qaidam basin (Mongolian: salt marsh), depression northeast of the Plateau of Tibet, located between the Qilian Shan and the Kunlun Shan at the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau.
saline marsh / salt
magnesium salt
refined salt / table salt
inorganic salt
carbonate salt (chemistry)
lit. firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea / fig. life's daily necessities
rock salt
coarse salt / rock salt
Yanhu district (Salt Lake district) of Yuncheng city 運城市|运城市, Shanxi
Qarhan Salt Lake in west Qinghai
salt lake
lit. the salted fish turns over (idiom) / fig. to experience a reversal of fortune
salt (colloquial) / table salt
legally-traded salt (with salt tax paid)
salt-pickled sun-dried cabbage (or potherb mustard etc)
salted egg custard bun; lava bun (steamed bun with a sweet runny egg custard filling, a popular dim sum)
refined salt
sodium chloride NaCl / common salt
mullet roe (salted and dried) / bottarga
illegally-traded salt (with salt tax not paid)
Lake Urmia, northwest Iran, a major salt lake / formerly called lake Rezaiyeh
table salt
salted duck egg
salt content


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