(ài) - to love, love in Mandarin
àiTraditional: 愛
Translation
to love, love
Word origin
The simplified 爱 derives from the traditional 愛, which in its older form contained the heart radical 心 to convey feeling. The simplified shape replaces the heart component with 友 'friend' beneath a covering element. The character has long carried the sense of cherishing or loving.
- Origin
- compound
- Root
- traditional 愛 contains 心 (heart); simplified 爱 ends in 友 (friend)
Stroke order
爱
Examples
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I love you.
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He loves his family very much.
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What is love?
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Mum loves eating fruit.
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The children all love this little dog.
爱 (ài) means to love, love. It is used as a verb in everyday Mandarin speech.
Where this fits
Appears in 5 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 爱.
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