Illustration: At a Japanese apartment’s breakfast table, a person shakes a small glass salt shaker over a peeled boiled egg cut into halves. Fine crystals fall through the perforated cap onto the exposed yolk, and more crystals are visible inside the shaker.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

食しょく塩えん

shokuen

table salt

塩 is more usual in everyday conversation. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

濃度のうど10%の食塩しょくえん水すいの作つくり方かたを教おしえてください。
Show me how to make 10% saline solution.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
めんどうですが食塩しょくえんをとっていただけませんか。
May I trouble you for the salt?
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
小麦粉こむぎこに食塩しょくえん水すいを加くわえてよく練ねって生地きじを作つくる。
Add brine to flour and knead the mixture to make dough.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 食塩

食eat; foodOnショク・ジキKunくう・くらう・たべる
塩saltOnエンKunしお

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