鹽 — Chinese character
鹽
yán
salt
- Pinyin
- yán
- Radical
- 197 ⿄ (Salt)
- Strokes
- 24
- Components
- 臣 鹵 皿
- Formation
- pictophonetic — salt; meaning component 鹵; sound component 皿
- Simplified
- 盐
- Japanese
- 鹽 as a kanji
鹽 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.