ài, yì

Radical: 艹 pictophonetic

Components & Etymology

艾 decomposes into the following components:

Semantic component: ; phonetic component: .

Words containing 艾

Common multi-character words and phrases that include 艾.

少艾
shào ài
怨艾
yuàn yì
未艾
wèi ài
艾卷
ài juǎn
moxa cigar
艾叶
ài yè
艾塔
ài tǎ
eta (Greek letter Ηη)
艾实
ài shí
艾条
ài tiáo
艾滋
ài zī
AIDS (loanword)
艾灸
ài jiǔ
moxibustion (Chinese medicine)
艾炭
ài tàn
艾炷
ài zhù
moxa cone

Related characters (radical 艹)

Characters that share the radical .

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