āi

fine dust

Components
土 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

earth

earth

矣 sound component

  Sound component

  

particle of completed action

Evolution

埃 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
埃 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
埃 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

āi

fine dust, dirt; dust; dirt; angstrom; phonetic ai or e

 

abbr. for Egypt 埃及[Aī​jí]

Most common words with 埃
Freq.
Word
Meaning

dust

埃及

Egypt

埃文

Evan

苏维埃

Soviet (council)

埃塞俄比亚

Ethiopia

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qˤə

'oj

āi

dust


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 14.7525% of movies

1050th most common character in movies

1121st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+57C3

Shuowen

“埃,塵也。从土,矣聲。”


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