Components
しょっぱい is an exact match with one form of the following word:
しょっぱい
BOOST
1. salty  (often written with kana only)
2. calculating; stingy  (often written with kana only)
3. scowling; grimacing; frowning  (often written with kana only)
4. hoarse  (often written with kana only)
5. inferior; poor; boring; dull  (orig. sumo term meaning "weak"; colloquialism; often written with kana only)
My mastery:
My current mastery of しょっぱい:
LOG IN to view word mastery data
My flashcards:
LOG IN to view your flashcards
Usefulness and usage:
Kanshudo usefulness level: 6 (among the 15,000 most useful words in Japanese)
• Kanshudo usefulness level is based on a usefulness score of 74,039 which gives a rank of 10,729
しょっぱい is the most useful form. 1 additional form is shown below.
• This form is almost always used
• Google Japan frequency rank: 19,000 (about 32,500,000 results)
VIEW INFLECTIONS
Example sentences:
このスープしょっぱすぎて
めない

This soup is too salty to eat.
ここソース
めてみる
ちょっと
しょ
っぱい

If you taste this sauce you'll find it a bit salty.
塩っぱい
BOOST
Reading : しょっぱい   
My flashcards:
LOG IN to view your flashcards
Usefulness and usage:
• This form is rarely used
• Google Japan frequency rank: 139,000 (about 655,000 results)
VIEW INFLECTIONS
エン   しお salt   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
ド   ト   ground; earth   つち ground, earth, soil   
さら dish   
コウ   ク   くち mouth   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
ジン   ニン   ひと man   
Problem with this word? Question or comment? Please CONTACT US.
Kanshudo is your AI Japanese tutor, and your constant companion on the road to mastery of the Japanese language. To get started learning Japanese, just follow the study recommendations on your Dashboard. You can use Quick search (accessible using the icon at the top of every page) to look up any Japanese word, kanji or grammar point, as well as to find anything on Kanshudo quickly. For an overview, take the tour.
Search results include information from a variety of sources, including Kanshudo (kanji mnemonics, kanji readings, kanji components, vocab and name frequency data, grammar points, examples), JMdict (vocabulary), Tatoeba (examples), Enamdict (names), KanjiVG (kanji animations and stroke order), and Joy o' Kanji (kanji and radical synopses). Translations provided by Google's Neural Machine Translation engine. For more information see credits.
×