塩しお

See also: 𥂁

塩しお U+5869, 塩 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5869 ← 塨 [U+5868] CJK Unified Ideographs 塪 → [U+586A]

Translingual

Traditional	鹽しお
Shinjitai	塩しお
Simplified	盐

Han character

塩しお (Kangxi radical 32, 土ど+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 土ど人口じんこう廿にじゅう (GORT), composition ⿰土ど𬐚)

Derived characters

• 𥵈

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 236, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5382
• Dae Jaweon: page 474, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 1, page 472, character 11
• Unihan data for U+5869

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 塩しお – see 鹽しお (“salt; salty substance, especially table salt; salt; etc.”). (This character is a variant form of 鹽しお).

Japanese

Shinjitai	塩しお
Kyūjitai	鹽しお

Glyph origin

Japanese shinjitai simplified from 鹽しお (臣しん → 土ど and 鹵 → 口くち). In the 1946 Tōyō kanji list.

Kanji

塩しお

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 鹽しお)

Readings

• Go-on: えん (en, Jōyō)^{←えん (en, historical)←えむ (emu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: えん (en, Jōyō)^{←えん (en, historical)←えむ (emu, ancient)}
• Kun: しお (shio, 塩しお, Jōyō)^{←しほ (sifo, 塩しお, historical)}

Compounds

• 塩しお(あん)梅うめ(ばい) (anbai)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
塩しお
しお Grade: 4
kun'yomi

Alternative spelling
鹽しお (kyūjitai)

塩しお (shio): a close-up picture of salt crystals.

⟨sipo⟩ → /ɕiɸo/ → /ɕiwo/ → /ɕio/

From Old Japanese, cited in the Kojiki of 712 CE. The Old Japanese term is cognate to Ainu シッポ (sippo).

Cognate with 潮しお (shio, “[ocean] tide”).

The medial consonant had already lenited to /w/ by 1603, as recorded in the Nippo Jisho.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) しお [shìóꜜ] (Odaka – [2])
• IPA^(key): [ɕio̞]

• Audio:

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Noun

塩しお(しお) • (shio) ^{←しほ (sifo)?}

1. salt

   塩しお(しお)の結ゆい(けっ)晶あきら(しょう)

   shio no kesshō

   salt crystal

2. saltiness

   Synonym: 塩気しおけ (shioke)

3. (by extension, colloquial) hardship, toil, trouble
4. (colloquial) a hoarse voice
5. (colloquial) Short for 塩屋しおや (shioya): a salter

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 塩しお(しお)辛からし(から) (shiokara)
• 塩しお(しお)辛からし(から)い (shiokarai)
• 塩しお(しお)気き(け) (shioke)
• 塩しお(しお)剥へず(む)き (shiomuki)
• 塩しお(シオ)地ち(ジ) (shioji)
• 塩しお(しお)屋や(や) (shioya)
• 岩いわ(いわ)塩しお(しお) (iwashio)
• 胡えびす(ご)麻あさ(ま)塩しお(しお) (gomashio)
• 藻も(も)塩しお(しお) (moshio)
• 山やま(やま)塩しお(じお) (yamajio)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
塩しお
えん Grade: 4
on'yomi

Alternative spelling
鹽しお (kyūjitai)

From Middle Chinese 鹽しお (MC yem, “salt”) and 鹽しお (MC yemH, “to salt; salting”).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) えん [éꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [ẽ̞ɴ]

Affix

塩しお(えん) • (en) 

1. salt
2. to salt; salting
3. (chemistry) salt
4. (chemistry) Short for 塩素えんそ (enso): chlorine

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 塩しお(えん)安やす(あん) (en'an)
• 塩しお(えん)化か(か) (enka)
• 塩しお(えん)害がい(がい) (engai)
• 塩しお(えん)基もと(き) (enki)
• 塩しお(えん)酸さん(さん) (ensan)
• 塩しお(えん)蔵ぞう(ぞう) (enzō)
• 塩しお(えん)梅うめ(ばい) (enbai)
• 塩しお(えん)分ぶん(ぶん) (enbun)
• 海うみ(かい)塩しお(えん) (kaien)
• 岩いわ(がん)塩しお(えん) (gan'en)
• 山やま(さん)塩しお(えん) (san'en)
• 食しょく(しょく)塩しお(えん) (shokuen)
• 正ただし(せい)塩しお(えん) (seien)
• 製せい(せい)塩しお(えん) (seien)
• 米べい(べい)塩しお(えん) (beien)
• 無む(ぶ)塩しお(えん) (buen)
• 無む(む)塩しお(えん) (muen)

Noun

塩しお(えん) • (en) 

1. (chemistry) a salt (substance mostly made in neutralization, such as sodium chloride)

Derived terms

• 塩しお(えん)ポツ (enpotsu)