ài, aì, yì
Chinese mugwort or wormwood
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 乂 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 艾
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
moxa | ||
AIDS (loanword) | ||
at symbol, @ | ||
Eddie (name) | ||
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), US army general and politician, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II, US President 1953-1961 |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.ŋˤa[t]-s | ngajH | ài | Artemisia; moxa |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 19.6540% of movies
711th most common character in movies
1291st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+827E |
Shuowen | “艾,冰臺也。从艸,乂聲。” |
Sources
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