āi

interjection of surprise

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

艾 sound component

  Sound component

ài

  

Chinese mugwort or wormwood

Definitions

 

āi

interjection of surprise; hey!; (interjection used to attract attention or to express surprise or disapprobation)

Most common words with 哎
Freq.
Word
Meaning

hey!

哎呀

interjection of wonder, shock or admiration

哎哟

hey

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 13.8395% of movies

1634th most common character in movies

2294th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+54CE


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