艾
àiài HSK7

Chinese mugwort or wormwood

艾 ài
mugwort noun
Chinese mugwort or wormwood, often used for moxa or traditional medicine

端午节人们会在门口挂艾草。

Duān​wǔ​jié rén​men huì zài mén​kǒu guà ài cǎo.

People hang mugwort on their doors during the Dragon Boat Festival.

AIDS verb
abbreviation for the disease AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome)

每年的十二月一日是世界抗艾日。

měi nián de Shí'èr​yuè yī​rì shì shì​jiè kàng ài rì.

December 1st every year is World AIDS Day.

cease punctuation
to stop, end, or cut short

这股改革的热潮方兴未艾。

zhè gǔ gǎi​gé de rè​cháo fāng​xīng wèi ài.

This wave of reform is in full swing.

Ai proper name
surname Ai

艾先生是我的老师。

ài xiān​sheng shì wǒ de lǎo​shī.

Mr. Ai is my teacher.

phonetic proper name
phonetic character used for transliterations for the sounds "ai" or "i"

艾略特是一位著名的诗人。

ài​lüè​tè shì yī wèi zhù​míng de shī​rén.

T.S. Eliot was a famous poet.

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Variant of

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,291st most common 97.3 per million
Movie subtitles
711th most common 183.1 per million appears in 20% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
27.6 per million appears in 6% of films
Written text
18.1 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
5
Unicode
U+827E

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