海盐 (hǎiyán) · sea salt

Meanings

1 sea salt

About the ingredient

调料 Seasonings

Salt made by drying seawater, sold coarse or fine. Untreated sea salt has no iodine, unlike iodised table salt, and much ordinary fine salt is sea salt too, though the bag rarely says so.

Characters

Examples

HSK 4

我更喜欢海盐的味道。

Wǒ gèng xǐhuan hǎiyán de wèidào.

I prefer the taste of sea salt.

HSK 6

这款巧克力加了海盐。

Zhè kuǎn qiǎokèlì jiā le hǎiyán.

This chocolate has sea salt added.

Tips

culture

海盐 also names Haiyan County in Zhejiang, a historically important salt-producing area. Capitalization in pinyin (Hǎiyán vs hǎiyán) distinguishes the place name from the common noun.