咸
Meaning
- all
- everyone
- each
Example sentence
这顿饭不咸。
The meal is not salty.
The character 咸
咸 is salty: 太咸了, 咸菜 pickles, 咸鸭蛋 the salted duck egg. At the table its opposite is 淡 — and the dictionary's other gloss, 'all', is a classical use that speech has let go.