鹽 (yán) — salt; verb — to salt, to cure

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鹽 character · TOCFL 2 (est.)

鹽＝鹵＋監

ㄧㄢˊ · yán

noun — salt; verb — to salt, to cure

字源 FORM — what the parts do

鹵義a salt-flat — grains of salt scattered in a brine pan

監聲jiān — gives the sound, worn from jiān to yán

ITjiān → yán — the initial drops away, the tone shifts

Brine-salt (鹵, grains in the pan) — 監 jiān, the overseer, lends the sound, worn to yán. The old graph remembers a watched fire boiling seawater down to salt: 食鹽、鹽巴.

故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by

海水入鍋，有人盯著（監）火，水汽散盡——鍋底全是鹵（鹵）鹽。

Seawater in the pan, someone watching (監) the fire, the steam all gone — the bottom left crusted with salt (鹵).

字源記憶法

意 · Meanings

(本義)鹽、食鹽— salt常用

→鹽分、鹽水— salinity; brine

⇒加鹽、鹽漬— to salt, to cure in salt

(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension