塩

塩 (Kangxi radical 32, 土+10, 13 strokes, cangjie input 土人口廿 (GORT), composition ⿰土𬐚)

• 𥵈

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 236, character 34
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5382
• Dae Jaweon: page 474, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): not present, would follow volume 1, page 472, character 11
• Unihan data for U+5869

Japanese shinjitai simplified from 鹽 (臣 → 土 and 鹵 → 口). In the 1946 Tōyō kanji list.

(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 鹽)

• Go-on: えん (en, Jōyō)^{←えん (en, historical)←えむ (emu, ancient)}
• Kan-on: えん (en, Jōyō)^{←えん (en, historical)←えむ (emu, ancient)}
• Kun: しお (shio, 塩, Jōyō)^{←しほ (sifo, 塩, historical)}

• 塩(あん)梅(ばい) (anbai)

⟨sipo⟩ → /ɕiɸo/ → /ɕiwo/ → /ɕio/

From Old Japanese, cited in the Kojiki of 712 CE.^[1] The Old Japanese term is cognate to Ainu シㇷ゚ポ (sippo) and Ainu シㇱポ (sispo).

Cognate with 潮 (shio, “[ocean] tide”).^[1][2]

The medial consonant had already lenited to /w/ by 1603, as recorded in the Nippo Jisho.^[3]

• (Tokyo) しお [shìóꜜ] (Odaka – [2])^[2][4]
• IPA^(key): [ɕio̞]

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塩(しお) • (shio) ^{←しほ (sifo)?}

1. salt

   塩(しお)の結(けっ)晶(しょう)

   shio no kesshō

   salt crystal

2. saltiness

   Synonym: 塩気 (shioke)

3. (by extension, colloquial) hardship, toil, trouble
4. (colloquial) a hoarse voice
5. (colloquial) short for 塩屋 (shioya): a salter

• → Ainu: シㇷ゚ポ^[5]
• → Ainu: シㇱポ^[6]

From Middle Chinese 鹽 (MC yem, “salt”) and 鹽 (MC yemH, “to salt; salting”).

• (Tokyo) えん [éꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [ẽ̞ɴ]

塩(えん) • (en) 

1. salt
2. to salt; salting
3. (chemistry) salt
4. (chemistry) short for 塩素 (enso): chlorine

塩(えん) • (en) 

1. (chemistry) a salt (substance mostly made in neutralization, such as sodium chloride)

• 塩(えん)ポツ (enpotsu)