salt; table salt; sodium chloride
The ordinary noun for salt, especially table salt used in cooking; can also refer to sodium chloride as a substance.
Add a pinch of salt to the soup.
この料理は塩を控えめにした。
I used less salt in this dish.
Food and cooking use for how strong the salt flavor is; common in expressions such as 塩が強い or 塩が足りない.
この漬物は少し塩が強い。
These pickles are a little too salty.
Rare figurative use for hardship or bitter experience; it is much less common than the literal salt sense and is safest understood as a set or literary-style usage.
古い表現では、「塩」が苦労や辛い経験を指すことがある。
In older expressions, 塩 can refer to hardship or bitter experience.
cold; unwelcoming; indifferent
Colloquial prefix-like use, especially in compounds such as 塩対応, describing a curt, cool, or unfriendly attitude.
店員の塩対応に少しがっかりした。
I was a little disappointed by the clerk's cold treatment.
彼は初対面の人には塩対応になりがちだ。
He tends to act cold toward people he has just met.
I sprinkled salt on the meat before grilling it.
I feel like this soup is too salty.
He's famous for giving fans a cold, indifferent reception.
I added a little salt to the soup.
This dish doesn't have enough salt.
塩 (also read しお) means table salt, while 潮 means tide, seawater, or the sea current, so the two are easily confused by sound but unrelated in meaning.
ナトリウム refers to the pure chemical element sodium, while 塩 is table salt (sodium chloride), and the two are often mixed up on nutrition labels.
salt-grilled; broiled with salt · boiling seawater to make salt
shiokara; salted fermented seafood paste
cone-shaped
salt pan; salt-making kettle · salt-crust cooking · salt-crust-style candy
saltiness; salty taste
salty; briny
table salt; salt placed on the table · small individual plate (for salt)
salted salmon
saltiness; amount of salt; seasoning with salt
coarse salt; unrefined salt
saltpan; salt-drying field
lightly salted; slightly salted
salt and MSG mixture; seasoned salt
salty broth; brine-based soup · salt water; brine
hot salt water · saltwater bath
boiling in salted water
salted fish
basket for salt by the ring
purifying salt · pile of salt placed by a shop entrance · whitecap; white-crested wave
salted tea; tea with a pinch of salt