JLPT N5 · Noun

塩 (shio)

塩 (しお, shio) is a Japanese noun meaning “salt; common salt”. It appears in JLPT N5 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
しお
Romaji
shio
Word class
Noun
Level
JLPT N5 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. salt; common salt; table salt; sodium chloride · noun
  2. hardship; toil; trouble · noun
  3. saltiness · noun
  4. cold; unwelcoming; indifferent · prefix noun · colloquial

Example sentences

このスープは塩が少し足りない。
This soup wants a bit of salt.

Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.

Kanji in 塩

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 塩.

Source: JMdict entry 1576630 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.