yàn
  1. (Ningbonese) to apply soap to; to dab or cover with soap
  2. (Ningbonese, of one's body) to be drenched in sweat
  3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of / (yàn, “to envy”)
  4. alternative form of / (yàn, “to envy”)
  5. to apply soap to; to dab or cover with soap
  6. to be drenched in sweat

Wiktionary

Homographs

Examples

還有鹽嗎?

Is there any salt left?

Source: Tatoeba

再加點鹽好嗎?

How about adding a little bit more salt?

Source: Tatoeba

請把鹽遞給我。

Please pass me the salt.

Source: Tatoeba

沒有再多的鹽了。

There's no more salt.

Source: Tatoeba

放點鹽到滾水裡。

Put some salt into the boiling water.

Source: Tatoeba

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Containing this entry

鹽亭 Yántíng Yanting county in Mianyang 綿陽 Miányáng, north Sichuan
鹽城 Yánchéng see 鹽城市 Yánchéng Shì
鹽埔 Yán Yanpu Township in Pingtung County 屏東縣 Píngdōng Xiàn, Taiwan
鹽埕 Yánchéng Yancheng district of Kaohsiung city 高雄市 Gāoxióngshì, south Taiwan
鹽山 Yánshān see 鹽山縣 Yánshān Xiàn
鹽池 Yánchí
  1. Yanchi county in Ningxia
  2. a saltpan
鹽津 Yánjīn Yanjin county in Zhaotong 昭通 Zhāotōng, Yunnan
鹽源 Yányuán see 鹽源縣 Yányuán Xiàn
鹽田 Yántián see 鹽田區 Yántián
鹽邊 Yánbiān Yanbian county in Panzhihua 攀枝花 Pānzhīhuā, south Sichuan
鹽都 Yán see 鹽都區 Yán
鹽瀆 Yán
鹽水 Yánshuǐ
鹽瓶 yánpíng
醃魚 yān
尿酸鹽 niàosuānyán
醃牛肉 yānniúròu
鹽焗雞 yán
醃菜 yāncài
脫鹽 tuōyán
腌臢 āza
崖鹽 yán
鹽梟 yánxiāo
醃篤鮮 yānxiān
鹽滷 yán
碳酸氫鹽 tànsuānqīngyán
鹽池 yánchí
醃製 yānzhì
鹽商 yánshāng
鹽鍵 yánjiàn
鹽竈 Yánzào
那須鹽原 yányuán
鹽尻 Yánkāo
銨鹽 ǎnyán
無鹽 yán
淮鹽 huáiyán
黃血鹽 huángxuèyán
赤血鹽 chìxuèyán
鹽價 yánjià
碘鹽 diǎnyán
鹽皮質激素 yánzhì
精鹽 jīngyán
鹽埕 yánchéng
分鹽 Fēnyán
鹽霜 yánshuāng
鹽鐵論 Yán Tiě Lùn
鹽關 Yánguān
鹽橋 yánqiáo
亞硫酸鹽 liúsuānyán
內鹽 nèiyán
複鹽 yán
膽鹽 dǎnyán
鹽幫菜 yánbāngcài
瑞典鹽醃鯡魚 ruìdiǎnyányānfēi
鹽溶液 yánróng
可鹽可甜 yántián
油鹽不進 yóuyánjìn
加鹽 jiāyán
喜馬拉雅鹽 yán
玫瑰鹽 méiguīyán
生醃 shēngyān
大鹽 yán
作鹽作光 zuòyánzuòguāng
低鹽 yán