"Salty" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 咸 |  xián | salted / salty / stingy / miserly |   |
| 五味 | wǔ wèi | the five flavors, namely: sweet 甜, sour 酸, bitter 苦, spicy hot 辣, salty 鹹|咸 / all kinds of flavors | |
| 炸酱面 | zhá jiàng miàn | zhajiang mian, thick wheat noodles served with ground pork simmered in salty fermented soybean paste (or other sauce) | |
| 齁 | hōu | to snore / thirsty from excessively salty or sweet food / (dialect) very / extremely | |
| 咸津津 | xián jīn jīn | nice and salty (taste) | |
| 咸淡 | xián dàn | salty and unsalty (flavors) / degree of saltiness / brackish (water) | |
| 咸涩 | xián sè | salty and bitter / acerbic | |
| 咸丝丝 | xián sī sī | slightly salty | |
| 重口味 | zhòng kǒu wèi | strong flavor (spicy, salty etc) / (of food) strongly flavored / (of a person) having a preference for strong flavors / (slang) intense / hardcore | |
