This food is too salty.
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咸
Traditional: 鹹
xián
HSK 3.0 · 4HSK 2.0 · 4
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xián · haam4 (Jyutping)
- all
- everyone
- each
- widespread
- harmonious
- salted
- salty
- stingy
- miserly
- surname Xian
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Character breakdown
咸
Unihan 17.0.0 · Unicode License V3. Make Me a Hanzi · LGPL 3+. Interactive stroke order is available in the study tools.
Example sentences
You can't drink seawater because it's too salty.
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