鹽

yán = y + an2

salt / CL:粒[li4]

盐 = 土 + 卜 + 皿 : 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).

鹽 character breakdown

鹽
- 皿

mǐn = mi + (e)n3

dish / vessel / shallow container / rad. no. 108

Marilyn Monroe is eating some rice out of a shallow bowl in the encampment.

mǐn = mi + (e)n3

(bound form) dish; vessel; shallow container / radical no. 108

Characters with 鹽 as component

鹽 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 鹽

rock salt

nitrite

(lit.) oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar / (fig.) the trivia of everyday life

sea salt

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)

Qarhan Salt Lake in west Qinghai

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

cyanate

salt from a salt lake

bath salts

Haiyan county in Jiaxing 嘉興|嘉兴[Jia1 xing1], Zhejiang

thermohaline circulation (oceanography)

acetate CH3COO-

refined salt

disordered and fragmentary

(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 鹽

鹽 currently does not appear in any sentence.