艾

Ài

Meanings

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Ài

1.surname Ai

yì

1.variant of 刈[yì]
2.variant of 乂[yì]

ài

1.Chinese mugwort (Artemisia); moxa
2.used in transliteration

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Wiktionary

1.mugwort, especially Chinese mugwort (Artemisia argyi), whose leaves are used to make moxa
2.green
3.pale; greyish white
4.elderly person
5.to end; to stop
6.beautiful lady
7.to nurture; to foster
8.an ancient place in modern-day Xiushui County, Jiangxi
9.a mountain in modern-day Xintai, Shandong
10.Used in transcription.
11.a surname
12.used in 艾滋病 (àizībìng, “AIDS”)
13.to punish

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ŋaːds, *ŋads): semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 乂 (OC *ŋads).

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Stroke order

Components

艾卄乂

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

Example sentences

他們想在艾菲爾鐵塔前面拍張結婚照。
They wanted a wedding picture in front of the Eiffel Tower.

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Synonyms

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Related words

艾虎 see 艾鼬[ài yòu]艾滋 (loanword) AIDS 艾灸 moxibustion (TCM)艾叶 mugwort leaf (TCM)未艾 (literary) not having come to its term 艾迪 Eddie (name)艾炭 carbonized mugwort leaf (TCM)艾片 preparation obtained from sambong leaves, containing borneol (used in TCM)艾鼬 steppe polecat (Mustela eversmanii)艾实 (TCM) fruit of Chinese mugwort (Artemisia argyi), aka fruit of argyi wormwood 艾塔 eta (Greek letter Η, η)艾绒 moxa floss