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盐
鹽
yán
1.
salt
2.
CL:[[粒<lì>]]
HSK 4
Very Common • Top 5%
Character Breakdown (Single character)
Compound Words (20)
埔盐
Bùyán
Puyan township in Changhua county [[彰化縣|彰化县<Zhānghuàxiàn>]], Taiwan
岩盐
yányán
rock salt
池盐
chíyán
lake salt
浴盐
yùyán
bath salts
海盐
Hǎiyán
Haiyan county in Jiaxing [[嘉興|嘉兴<Jiāxīng>]], Zhejiang
泻盐
xièyán
epsom salts
石盐
shíyán
rock salt
矿盐
kuàngyán
halite
粗盐
cūyán
coarse salt
细盐
xìyán
refined salt
酸盐
suānyán
sulfonate
钾盐
jiǎyán
potassium chloride KCl
镁盐
měiyán
magnesium salt
杂盐
záyán
carnallite (hydrated potassium magnesium chloride mineral)
食盐
shíyán
edible salt
咸盐
xiányán
salt (colloquial)
盐井
Yánjǐng
Yanjing, common place name
盐亭
Yántíng
Yanting county in Mianyang [[綿陽|绵阳<Miányáng>]], north Sichuan
盐城
Yánchéng
Yancheng prefecture level city in Jiangsu
盐埔
Yánbù
Yanpu township in Pingtung County [[屏東縣|屏东县<PíngdōngXiàn>]], Taiwan
Example Sentences (5)
看来是掉颜色了，你洗的时候在水里加点儿盐就不会这样了。
Kànlái shì diào yánsè le, nǐ xǐ de shíhou zài shuǐlǐ jiā diǎnr yán jiù bùhuì zhèyàng le.
Looks like the color has run; if you add a little salt to the water when you wash it, it won't be like this.
Text 2
放盐？！盐不是用来做饭的吗？难道它还能让衣服不掉颜色？
Fàng yán?! Yán bú shì yònglái zuòfàn de ma? Nándào tā háinéng ràng yīfu bú diào yánsè?
Add salt?! Isn't salt used for cooking? Could it also keep clothes from fading?
Text 2
放盐？！盐不是用来做饭的吗？难道它还能让衣服不掉颜色？
Fàng yán?! Yán bú shì yònglái zuòfàn de ma? Nándào tā háinéng ràng yīfu bú diào yánsè?
Add salt?! Isn't salt used for cooking? Could it also keep clothes from fading?
Text 2
当然。有些衣服第一次洗的时候会掉颜色，其实，有很多方法可以解决这个问题。在水里加勺盐再洗是最简单的方法。用盐水来洗新衣服，这样穿得再久、洗的次数再多，衣服也不容易掉颜色。
Dāngrán. Yǒuxiē yīfú dìyīcì xǐ de shíhòu huì diào yánsè, qíshí, yǒu hěnduō fāngfǎ kěyǐ jiějué zhègè wèntí. Zài shuǐ lǐ jiā sháo yán zài xǐ shì zuì jiǎndān de fāngfǎ. Yòng yánshuǐ lái xǐ xīn yīfú, zhèyàng chuān de zài jiǔ, xǐ de cìshù zài duō, yīfú yě bù róngyì diào yánsè.
Of course. Some clothes lose color the first time you wash them; in fact, there are many ways to solve this problem. The simplest method is to add a spoon of salt to the water and wash again. Wash new clothes with salt water; this way, no matter how long you wear them or how many times you wash them, the clothes won't fade easily.
Text 2
我第一次听说盐有保护衣服颜色的作用，生活中还真有不少课本上无法学到的知识。
Wǒ dì yī cì tīngshuō yán yǒu bǎohù yīfu yánsè de zuòyòng, shēnghuó zhōng hái zhēn yǒu bùshǎo kèběn shàng wúfǎ xuédào de zhīshi.
This is the first time I've heard that salt can protect the color of clothes, and there really is a lot of knowledge in everyday life that you can't learn from textbooks.
Text 2
Metadata
- Category
- Chinese
- HSK Character Level
- 4
- Character Frequency Rank
- 1,884
- Word Frequency Rank
- 4,086 of 84,292