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salty taste, saltiness, salt flavor
The taste of salt or a salt-based seasoning. Also used as a flavor category for ramen, snacks, and other foods where salt is the primary seasoning rather than soy sauce, miso, etc.
塩味のラーメンが好きだ。
I like salt-flavored ramen.
もう少し塩味が欲しい。
I'd like a little more saltiness.
このポテトチップスは塩味が効いていて止まらない。
The saltiness of these potato chips really comes through, and I can't stop eating them.
USAGE:
塩味 is one of the basic ramen flavor categories alongside 醤油 (soy sauce), 味噌 (miso), and 豚骨 (pork bone). For snack foods like potato chips, 塩味 is the "plain" or "original" flavor. Can also be read しおみ, though しおあじ is more common.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 塩味ラーメン: salt-flavored ramen
- 塩味が効く: the saltiness comes through
- 塩味を加える: add saltiness
- 塩味が強い: strongly salty
- 塩味が足りない: not salty enough