Memory phrase for the character: 盐

盐

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Meaning

salt

Pronunciation

 yán

Explanation

 Top: 圤 (earth 土, fortune telling 卜 also understood as a branching), bottom: bowl 皿

Mnemonic
 
From earth it can be separated (branched off) and collected in a bowl: salt.

Radicals

土 earth, groundPay attention to the length of the upper line. If it is longer, it means scholar 士.
卜 oracle, mysticismThis radical is considered to be a simplification of: fortune telling 占 (crack 卜 in the shell 口 of a turtle from which the fortune was told.). Sometimes it is read as a forking of a road.
皿 bowl
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 Vocabulary

食盐 shí yán  edible salt
盐酸 yán suān  hydrochloric acid HCl
盐滩 yán tān  salt flats; salt lake
硅酸盐 guī suān yán  silicate
硅酸盐 guī suān yán  

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