盐
yányàn HSK4

salt

盐 鹽 yán frequency
table salt noun
common table salt; sodium chloride

请把盐罐再装满。

qǐng bǎ yán guàn zài zhuāng mǎn.

Please refill the salt shaker.

salt (chemistry) noun
(bound form) any chemical compound formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, consisting of a metal ion and an acid radical
surname
a Chinese surname
盐 鹽 yàn
to salt
(literary) to preserve or season food with salt
to admire
(archaic) to desire or envy; same as 艳 yàn

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,885th most common 42.7 per million
Movie subtitles
2,063rd most common 17.5 per million appears in 8% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
12.7 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
45.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Traditional
鹽
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+76D0

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)