艾
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Chinese mugwort (Artemisia); moxa; used in transliteration
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 艸 +2
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 艾
- Common rank
- #1,018
- Unicode
- U+827E
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 艾 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
艹 meaning “grass” + 乂 sound ()
Components 艹 乂
How to remember it
Chinese mugwort · Heisig RSH #2533
flower + sheaf
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 艾
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 艾赛克斯 | Essex (English county) | |
| 艾尔米塔奇 | Ermitazh or Hermitage museum in St Peterburg | |
| 布宜诺斯艾利斯 | Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina | |
| 艾尔伯塔 | Alberta province of Canada, capital Edmonton 埃德蒙頓|埃德蒙顿[Ai1 de2 meng2 dun4]; also written 阿… | |
| 万艾可 | Viagra | |
| 艾萨克 | Isaac (name) | |
| 艾萨克·牛顿 | Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), British mathematician and physicist | |
| 艾纳香 | sambong (Blumea balsamifera) | |
| 艾迪卡拉 | Ediacaran (c. 635-542 million years ago), late phase of pre-Cambrian geological era; also … | |
| 艾尔米塔什 | Ermitazh or Hermitage museum in St Peterburg | |
| 艾特 | (loanword) at sign; @ | |
| 艾叶油 | mugwort leaf oil (TCM); also called wormwood leaf oil; Oleum folii Artemisiae argyi | |
| 方兴未艾 | flourishing and still in the ascendant (idiom); rapidly expanding; still growing strong; o… | |
| 艾老 | (literary) person aged over fifty; elderly person | |
| 艾比湖 | Aibi Lake (Ebinur) in Xinjiang | |
| 苦艾酒 | absinthe (distilled anise-based liquor) | |
| 艾伯塔 | Alberta province of Canada, capital Edmonton 埃德蒙頓|埃德蒙顿[Ai1 de2 meng2 dun4]; also written 阿… | |
| 艾普西隆 | epsilon (Greek letter Ε, ε) | |
| 艾德蒙顿 | Edmonton, capital of Alberta, Canada; also written 埃德蒙頓|埃德蒙顿[Ai1 de2 meng2 dun4] | |
| 艾菲尔铁塔 | (Tw) Eiffel Tower |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 乂 — compare how they read.