ǎi

lush

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

is a component form of .

謁 sound component

  Sound component

  

visit

Evolution

藹 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
藹 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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ǎi

lush; affable, friendly; friendly

Most common words with 藹
Freq.
Word
Meaning

和蔼

kindly

和蔼可亲

affable

friendly

蔼然

amicable

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qˤa[t]-s

'ajH

ǎi

ample, numerous


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

19

Simplified

Unicode

U+85F9

Shuowen

“藹,臣盡力之美,从言葛聲。《詩》曰:‘譪譪王多吉士。’”


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