Definition

1. Noun:
   • Salt pan / salt field: A shallow, man-made plot of land, typically divided into compartments, located near the sea. Its primary purpose is to evaporate seawater to produce salt.
   • Salt marsh (in some contexts): Refers to the coastal area or system used for salt production. This term can overlap with the ecological term for a coastal wetland, but its primary meaning in Vietnamese is specifically for salt harvesting.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Những ruộng muối trắng xóa trải dài dọc bờ biển. (The gleaming white salt pans stretch along the coastline.)
  • Người dân vùng này sống chủ yếu bằng nghề làm ruộng muối. (The people in this region live mainly by working in the salt fields.)
  • Nước biển được dẫn vào các ô ruộng muối để bắt đầu quá trình bay hơi. (Seawater is channeled into the compartments of the salt pan to begin the evaporation process.)

Advanced Usage

• The term "ruộng muối" specifically denotes an agricultural/industrial production area. It is different from a natural "đầm lầy muối" (salt marsh), which is an ecosystem, though they can occupy similar coastal zones.

Variants and Related Words

• Làm muối (v): To produce salt, to work in salt production.
  • Nghề làm muối rất vất vả, phụ thuộc vào nắng và gió. (Salt production is a very hard job, dependent on sun and wind.)
• Diêm dân (n): Salt farmer.
  • Các diêm dân thức dậy từ rất sớm để ra ruộng muối. (The salt farmers wake up very early to go to the salt fields.)

Synonyms

• Salt pan: A man-made facility for obtaining salt by evaporation.
• Salt field: An area of land used for salt production.
• Saltern: Another term for a salt production works.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• Trắng như ruộng muối: As white as a salt field. Used to describe something very white, often covering a large area.
  • Cánh đồng sau trận tuyết rơi trắng như ruộng muối. (The field after the snowfall was as white as a salt pan.)

noun

1. salt-marsh