艾 (ài)
mugwort; to stop
How 艾 is written
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 艹 — grass
- Traditional
- 艾
- Simplified
- 艾 (unchanged)
Components
- 艹 grass
- 乂 N/A
艾 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- ài
- surname Ai
- yì
- to mow; to cut; to reap; to redress
Common words using 艾
- 自怨自艾 zìyuànzìyì
- to be full of remorse; to repent and redress one's errors
- 艾滋 àizī
- AIDS (loanword); see also 愛滋病|爱滋病[ai4 zi1 bing4]
- 艾滋病 àizībìng
- AIDS (loanword)
- 布宜諾斯艾利斯 bùyínuòsīàilìsī
- Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina
- 艾灸 àijiǔ
- moxibustion (Chinese medicine)
- 艾美獎 àiměijiǎng
- Emmy Award
- 艾草 àicǎo
- Asian mugwort or wormwood (genus Artemesia)
- 艾葉 àiyè
- mugwort leaf (traditional Chinese medicine); Folium Artemisiae argyi
- 苦艾 kǔài
- wormwood; Artemisia absinthium
- 苦艾酒 kǔàijiǔ
- absinthe (distilled anise-based liquor)
- 防艾 fángài
- protecting against AIDS
- 方興未艾 fāngxīngwèiài
- flourishing and still in the ascendant (idiom); rapidly expanding; still growing strong; on the up
艾 in a sentence
艾草可以用來做藥。
Àicǎo kěyǐ yònglái zuò yào.
“Mugwort can be used as medicine.”
How common is 艾?
艾 is the 1,289th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 92.8% of all running text.
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