ǎi

lush

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

is a component form of .

谒 sound component

  Sound component

  

visit

Evolution

蔼 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
蔼 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
蔼 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
蔼 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

ǎi

lush; affable, friendly; friendly

Most common words with 蔼
Freq.
Word
Meaning

和蔼

kindly

和蔼可亲

affable

friendly

蔼然

amicable

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.7460% of movies

3111th most common character in movies

3460th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

14

Traditional

Unicode

U+853C


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