Character Details
| love | Ascii: — | w374 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 爱 | aì | eye | 4 | 爫 (claw) + 冖 (cover) + 心 (heart) → love | 爱 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Bird friends make lots of love in the birdhouse. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - Heart hidden inside actions → love | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - I love you! | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
| Strokes | |||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| — - 心 | xīn | heart | heart | heart shape | 心 忘 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 爫 (claw) + 冖 (cover) + 心 (heart) → love | 爫 (semantic origin) | 夂 (phonetic origin) | complex phonetic history | ||||||||