ài
seem; appear; to pant
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 愛 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*qˤəp-s | 'ojH | ài | to pant, lose the breath |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+50FE |
Shuowen | “僾，仿佛也。从人，愛聲。” |
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