salt / CL:粒[li4]

= + + : Maud Younger (y) finished cooking a dish in the anthill's kitchen (an2) when she finds that she's out of salt (盐). Her last hope is to put some dirt (土) in a bowl (皿) and trying to change it into salt (盐) using a voodoo staff (卜).

盐 character breakdown

surname Bu
(bound form) to divine / to forecast or estimate / (of a place to live etc) to choose

= + : Mnemonic symbol from "to divine" and the shape of the character: a voodoo staff.

Bruno Bear (bu-) tries to divine (卜) the future in the space station's living room (Ø3). He places a petal (丶) in the middle of the room as an offering and starts a magic ritual with his voodoo staff (卜). The staff transforms the petal into a dinosaur bone (丨). Bruno divines that the staff was trying to tell him that all things are mortal and must come to an end.
Tu (ethnic group) / surname Tu
earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]

= + : Tommy Turtle (tu) wants to fix a cross (十) on a flute (一) in the space station's living room (Ø3). He uses dust and clay (土) to hold them together.
dish / vessel / shallow container / rad. no. 108

Marilyn Monroe is eating some rice out of a shallow bowl in the encampment.
see 蘿蔔|萝卜[luo2 bo5]
variant of 墣, clod or lump of earth

= + : In the space station's kitchen (Ø2) Petra Penguin (pu) is beating a pile of dirt (土) with a voodoo staff (卜) to give it some form and make it into a round lump of earth (圤).
(bound form) dish; vessel; shallow container / radical no. 108

Characters with 盐 as component

盐 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 盐

(lit.) oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar / (fig.) the trivia of everyday life
Haiyan county in Jiaxing 嘉興|嘉兴[Jia1 xing1], Zhejiang
Puyan Township in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县[Zhang1 hua4 Xian4], Taiwan
legally-traded salt (with salt tax paid)
lit. firewood, rice, oil and salt / fig. life's daily necessities
lit. firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy, vinegar, and tea / fig. life's daily necessities
salt from a salt lake
Haiyan county in Jiaxing 嘉興|嘉兴[Jia1 xing1], Zhejiang
thermohaline circulation (oceanography)
(dialect) to put sb on an intravenous drip
Puyan Township in Changhua County 彰化縣|彰化县[Zhang1 hua4 Xian4], Taiwan

Sentences with 盐

盐 currently does not appear in any sentence.