塩, しお
1. salt, common salt, table salt, sodium chloride
2. hardship, toil, trouble
Food term
3. saltiness
Noun, used as a prefix, Colloquialism
4. cold, unwelcoming, indifferent
このスープは塩が少し足りない。
塩, えん
Chemistry term
1. salt (e.g. sodium chloride, calcium sulfate, etc.)
See 塩化, Abbreviation
2. chloride
このスープは塩が少し足りない。
が
Particle
1. indicates sentence subject (occasionally object)
2. indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions)
Conjunction
3. but, however, still, and
after the volitional form of a verb
4. regardless of, whether (or not)