ài

obstruct

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

Components
石 meaning component

  Meaning component

shídàn

  

stone

㝵 sound component

  Sound component

ài

  

to get

Evolution

碍 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
碍 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
碍 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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ài

obstruct, hinder, block, deter; to hinder; to obstruct; to block

Most common words with 碍
Freq.
Word
Meaning

障碍

barrier

妨碍

to hinder

阻碍

to obstruct

to hinder

碍事

to be in the way

Statistics

HSK level 5

Appears in 21.8325% of movies

1507th most common character in movies

1437th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Traditional

Unicode

U+788D


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