Chinese Character Wiki

隘

ài

narrow

Phonosemantic compound. 阝 represents the meaning and 益 represents the sound.

Components
阝 meaning component

阝  Meaning component

fù

  

hill, place

阝 is a component form of 阜.

益 sound component

益  Sound component

yì

  

benefit

Evolution

隘 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
隘 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
隘 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

隘  

ài

narrow, confined; a strategic pass; pass; defile; narrow; confined; in distress

Most common words with 隘
Freq.
Word
Meaning

狭隘

narrow

隘

pass

隘口

defile

关隘

mountain pass

要隘

strategic pass

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*qˤ<r>[i]k-s

'eaH

ài

a narrow pass

*qˤ<r>[i]k

'eak

è

a narrow pass


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3152nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+9698

Shuowen

“，也。从，聲，，籀文嗌字。隘，籀文，从、益。”


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