ǎi

cloudy sky

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

Components
雨 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

rain

谒 sound component

  Sound component

  

visit

Evolution

霭 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
霭 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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ǎi

cloudy sky, haze; calm, peaceful; mist; haze; cloudy sky

Most common words with 霭
Freq.
Word
Meaning

雾霭

mist

mist

暮霭

evening mist

烟霭

mist and clouds

云霭

floating clouds

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4316th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

19

Traditional

Unicode

U+972D


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