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食盐

shí yán

2-character word Traditional 食鹽

What 食盐 means

1. edible salt; table salt

The characters in 食盐

• 食shíto eat; food; animal feed
• 盐yánsalt

Example sentences

• 食盐溶于水。
  Salt dissolves in water.
• 我爱你如同新鲜的肉爱食盐。
  I love you as fresh meat loves salt.

Sounds the same

Read shí yán, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 食言to break one's promise
• 时延(electronics) delay; latency
• 石盐rock salt