天てん日じつ塩えん

also: てんぴじお

て

ん

じ

つ

え

ん

Meanings

1

noun

sun-dried salt; solar salt

Salt produced by evaporating seawater using sunlight, often in salt pans. A traditional method yielding natural sea salt.

作つく

ら

れ

た

天てん

日じつ

塩えん

は

、

料りょう

理り

の

味あじ

を

引ひ

き

立た

て

ます

。

Sun-dried salt made by traditional methods enhances the flavor of dishes.

食しょく塩えん
食塩 is generic table salt, often refined; 天日塩 specifically refers to salt dried by the sun, implying a natural, less processed product.
自し然ぜん塩えん
自然塩 is a broader term for natural salt, which may include rock salt or other minimally processed salts; 天日塩 is a subset produced by solar evaporation.

天日塩
- てんじつえん
  Standard kanji spelling; the reading てんじつえん is the most common.
- てんぴじお
  Alternate reading using kun'yomi for 日 and 塩; less common but recognized.
てんぴじお

Compound of 天日 (てんじつ, 'sunlight') and 塩 (えん, 'salt'), literally 'sunlight salt'. The reading てんぴじお uses kun'yomi for the latter two characters.