Unicode: U+5509

Pinyin: ài āi

Definition

āi:* 叹词,应人声。 * 叹息的声音。 ~声叹气。 ài:* 叹词,表示伤感或惋惜。 ~,病了几天,把事都耽误了

alas, exclamation of surprise or pain

Structure

唉 graph

Related substructures

Precursors

Small Seal Script
Standardized 221–206 BCE (Qin); developed earlier in Qin
The standardized seal script promulgated after Qin’s unification, based on earlier Qin seal forms and used as an empire-wide norm.Wikipedia ->
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Last Modified: 2026-01-29 11:48 UTC