hoi2 jim4海鹽海盐
Jyutpinghoi2 jim4
Yalehói yìhm
Definition
Sea salt; often used in naming food and beverages for a more appealing sound.
colloquialfooddrink
How it's used
Marketing often uses this term to elevate the perceived quality of a product, making it sound more artisanal or premium compared to standard table salt. It is almost exclusively found in the context of food and beverage branding rather than in culinary instructions or home cooking, where people simply use 鹽.
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baau1包bāuExamples
This sea salt coffee tastes very unique.
Do you like eating sea salt flavored potato chips?
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Grammar guides
- LocationHow to say where something is using 喺 (hai2), place words like 度, and the common coverbs that work like English prepositions.
- Serial verbsStringing two or more verbs together without any joining word, like go to the shop buy things. Extremely common in Cantonese.
- 將 disposalHow to move the object in front of the verb with 將, to focus on what happens to it. Common in instructions and writing.
