咸

Pinyin: xián

salted; salty; stingy; miserly

🏮 Chinese HSK 4 adjective

Example sentence

你不能喝海水,因为它太咸了。

Nǐ bù néng hē hǎishuǐ, yīnwèi tā tài xián le.

You can't drink seawater because it is too salty.

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What 咸 means

咸 (xián) is a Chinese word meaning “salted; salty; stingy; miserly”. It appears in the HSK 4 collection.

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Words and levels: HSK Examination Syllabus (2025), Center for Language Education and Cooperation · meanings: CC-CEDICT · example sentences: Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR) · Dictionary-derived data: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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