ài

to love

Evolution

㤅 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
㤅 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

 

ài

to love, to be fond of, o like; love, affection, a breath, news, to stop; to end, (interchangeable ) jealous; to envy, (the small seal ) love; archaic variant of |[ài]

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+3905

Shuowen

“,惠也。从心,旡聲。,古文。”


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