ái

brilliant white

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
白 meaning component

  Meaning component

bái

  

white

豈 sound component

  Sound component

kǎi

  

victorious music, happy

Evolution

皚 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
皚 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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ái

brilliant white; white (of snow etc)

Most common words with 皚
Freq.
Word
Meaning

白雪皑皑

brilliant white snow cover (esp. of distant peaks)

皑皑

white as snow

white (of snow etc)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3952nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+769A

Shuowen

“皚,霜雪之白也。从白,豈聲。”


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