哀
āi HSK7

sad; pity

哀 āi
to mourn verbnoun
(bound form) to mourn; to grieve for; to lament a person's death
sorrow nounadjective
(bound form) sorrow; grief; mourning
sad adjective
(bound form) sad; tragic; doleful
pitifully verb
(bound form) used to describe an action done in a pitiful or desperate way, such as begging for help
to pity
(bound form) to pity; to feel compassion for; to sympathize with
mourning for a mother
(bound form) used in traditional funeral contexts to refer to someone who has lost their mother, such as 哀子 āi​zǐ
Ai
Ai (c. 2000 BC), the sixth of the legendary Flame Emperors
surname Ai
a Chinese surname

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,751st most common 50.1 per million
Movie subtitles
1,928th most common 21.8 per million appears in 12% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
1.55 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
6.13 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+54C0

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)