āi

Components
女 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

woman

woman

矣 sound component

  Sound component

  

particle of completed action

Evolution

娭 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
娭 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
娭 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

āi

see 娭姐[āi​jiě], father's mother; granny (dialect); respectful form of address for older lady

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+5A2D

Shuowen

“娭,戲也。从女,矣聲。一曰卑賤名也。”


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