Salt dissolves in water.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
食盐
edible salt; table salt
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
edible salt; table salt
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 食盐 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 食盐 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I love you as fresh meat loves salt.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 食盐.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 食盐.
Directly before
- 爱食盐1
Directly after
- 食盐溶于1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 食盐
What does 食盐 mean in Chinese?
食盐 (shíyán) means edible salt; table salt.
How do you pronounce 食盐?
食盐 is pronounced shíyán.
Is 食盐 an HSK word?
食盐 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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