哀
āiāi HSK7

sad; pity

哀 āi
mourn verb
to grieve for, lament, or express condolences

举国哀悼。

jǔ​guó āi dào.

The whole country is in mourning.

Ai adjective
Ai (c. 2000 BC), sixth of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝 Yán​dì descended from 神农 Shén​nóng (the Farmer God), also known as Li 厘 Lí.

哀是传说中神农氏后裔的一位炎帝。

āi shì chuán​shuō zhōng Shén​nóng​shì hòu​yì de yī wèi Yán​dì.

Ai was a legendary Yan Emperor and a descendant of the Shennong clan.

sorrow expression
feelings of grief, sadness, or pity

请节哀顺变。

qǐng jié'āi​shùn​biàn.

Please accept my deepest condolences.

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)