Lingaku塩【しお】
Frequency rank: 3,240. – 3,242.
- salt; common salt; table salt; sodium chloride
- hardship; toil; trouble
- saltinessfood, cooking
- cold; unwelcoming; indifferentcolloquialism
noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
noun, used as a prefix
Forms
- 塩【しお】Frequency rank: 3,240. – 3,242.
- しおFrequency rank: 29,536. – 29,805.
Generated definitions (experimental)
- salt; common salt; table salt; sodium chloride
- hardship; toil; trouble
- saltiness
- cold; unwelcoming; indifferent
This is the common usage of the word "塩" to refer to salt, specifically sodium chloride.
In this context, "塩" is used to describe hardships or difficulties one may face.
This meaning refers to the taste of saltiness.
When describing someone or an atmosphere as cold or unwelcoming, "塩" is used metaphorically.
Generated collocations (experimental)
しお塩をふる振るto sprinkle saltしお塩をつかう使うto use saltしおあじ塩味salt flavorえんぶん塩分salt contentうみ海のしお塩sea saltあらしお粗塩coarse saltしょくえん食塩table saltしお塩がきいているwell-seasoned with saltしおからい塩辛いsaltyえんぞう塩蔵salted (preserved)しお塩をとる取るto take salt (in food)しお塩にかんする関するじょうほう情報information about saltえんすい塩水saltwaterすうぷスープにしお塩をくわえる加えるto add salt to the soupくろう苦労をしお塩にたとえる例えるto liken hardships to salt
Example sentences
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My mother tasted the soup and added a little more salt.
They laid down a scheme for extracting salt from seawater.
He seems really depressed and lifeless today. I wonder what took the wind out of his sails.