塩
しお · shio · JLPT N5 · noun
salt
🧂 shio: SHE Owes me salt — she-oh, pass the shaker
Shio sounds like she-oh. The kanji 塩 has 土 (earth) on the left: salt is the mineral taken from the ground. It is a simplified form of the older 鹽; shio ramen is simply salt-flavoured ramen.