爱
ài HSK1

love

爱 愛 ài
to love verb
to love; to have deep affection for a person or thing

我非常爱你，亲爱的。

wǒ fēi​cháng ài nǐ, qīn'ài​de.

I love you very much, my dear.

我从没爱过一个男人。

wǒ cóng méi ài guo yī​ge nán​rén.

I've never loved a man.

love noun
love; affection; deep feeling

我对你的爱不会改变。

wǒ duì nǐ de ài bù​huì gǎi​biàn.

My love for you won't change.

他们说爱是痛苦。

tā​men shuō ài shì tòng​kǔ.

They say love is pain.

to like verb
to like; to be fond of; to be keen on

我爱看到其他人开心。

wǒ ài kàn dào qí​tā rén kāi xīn.

I love to see other people happy.

说实话，我真的不爱读书。

shuō​shí​huà, wǒ zhēn​de bù ài dú shū.

Honestly, I really don’t like reading.

favorite noun
someone or something one loves or treasures

你是我的最爱。

nǐ shì wǒ​de zuì ài.

You're my favorite.

to be prone to verbadverb
to be inclined to; to be apt to; to tend to happen easily

她不是个爱哭的孩子。

tā bù​shì ge ài kū de hái​zi.

She is not a cry baby.

to cherish verb
to cherish; to treasure; to take good care of

花点时间爱自己。

huā diǎn shí​jiān ài zì​jǐ.

Take some time to love yourself.

kindness adjective
kindness; favor; benevolence; a legacy of affection left to others
[as one pleases] verb
Used in a pattern meaning "whether one wants to or not" to express that a person can do as they please, often with a tone of indifference.

你爱喝多少就喝多少。

nǐ ài hē duō​shǎo jiù hē duō​shǎo.

Drink as much as you want.

我爱去哪里就去哪里。

wǒ ài qù nǎ​li jiù qù nǎ​li.

I go wherever I like.

daughter
(literary) used as a respectful way to refer to someone else's daughter, equivalent to 令嫒 lìng'ài
surname
a Chinese surname
to grudge
to be stingy; to grudge; to be reluctant to part with

Cross-References

Classifier

Same as

See

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
394th most common 559.0 per million
Movie subtitles
128th most common 1393.1 per million appears in 96% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
927.7 per million appears in 85% of films
Written text
731.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Traditional
愛
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+7231

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