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Simplified form of 愛. Phonosemantic compound. 旡 represents the sound and 友 (friend) represents the meaning.
Components
Change in sound
爱 and 旡 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar
in older Chinese. Change in form
Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 旡 than it was in ancient scripts.