| 鹹 | [ xián ] salted, salty, stingy, miserly |
| 鹹水 | [ xián shuǐ ] salt water, brine |
| 鹹水妹 | [ xián shuǐ meì ] (dialect) prostitute from Guangdong (esp. one in Shanghai before the Revolution) (loanword from "handsome maid") |
| 鹹水湖 | [ xián shuǐ hú ] salt lake |
| 鹹津津 | [ xián jīn jīn ] nice and salty (taste) |
| 鹹津津兒 | [ xián jīn jīn ] erhua variant of 鹹津津|咸津津[xian2 jin1 jin1] |
| 鹹海 | [ xián haǐ ] Aral Sea |
| 鹹淡 | [ xián dàn ] salty and unsalty (flavors), degree of saltiness, brackish (water) |
| 鹹澀 | [ xián sè ] salty and bitter, acerbic |
| 鹹濕 | [ xián shī ] (Tw) (coll.) obscene, pornographic |
| 鹹絲絲 | [ xián sī sī ] slightly salty |
| 鹹絲絲兒 | [ xián sī sī ] erhua variant of 鹹絲絲|咸丝丝[xian2 si1 si1] |
| 鹹肉 | [ xián roù ] bacon, salt-cured meat |
| 鹹菜 | [ xián caì ] salted vegetables, pickles |
| 鹹豬手 | [ xián zhū shoǔ ] pervert (esp. one who gropes women in public) |
| 鹹酥雞 | [ xián sū jī ] fried chicken pieces with salt and pepper, Taiwan-style fried chicken |
| 鹹魚 | [ xián yú ] salted fish |
| 鹹魚翻身 | [ xián yú fān shēn ] lit. the salted fish turns over (idiom), fig. to experience a reversal of fortune |
| 鹹鴨蛋 | [ xián yā dàn ] salted duck egg |
| 鹹鹽 | [ xián yán ] salt (colloquial), table salt |
| ⇒ 腌鹹 | [ yān xián ] to pickle with salt |