鹹
xián HSK4

salty

咸 鹹 xián
salty adjective
salty; having the taste of salt

汗水为什么是咸的？

hàn​shuǐ wèi​shén​me shì xián de?

Why is sweat salty?

saltiness noun
saltiness; the salty taste of the five flavors (sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, salty)
stingy
(colloquial) stingy; miserly; mean with money
Xian (historical place)
a historical locality in the State of Wei during the Spring and Autumn period, located in modern-day Puyang County, Henan

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,525th most common 18.7 per million
Movie subtitles
2,738th most common 5.64 per million appears in 3% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
5.43 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
14.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Simplified
咸
Strokes
20
Unicode
U+9E79

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