āi, ài
alas
Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and 矣 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 7.7206% of movies
2048th most common character in movies
2091st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+5509 |
Shuowen | “唉,譍也。从口,矣聲。” |
Sources
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