IDENTITY
爱àito love; love
HSK 1Top 41
CORE MEANING
to love; love
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to loveHSK1
- 2.to like doing somethingHSK2
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 爫claw radical (zhǎo)
- strokes
- 10
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱⿱爫冖友
- hand/claw element at top
- a cover
- friend; the core of the modern simplified form
USAGE
Common words
爱人àirénspouse
可爱kěàicute
爱情àiqíngromantic love
爱好àihàohobby
Graded examples
我爱你。Wǒ ài nǐ.HSK1
I love you.
他爱看书。Tā ài kàn shū.HSK2
He loves reading.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 受
POEM LINES WITH THIS CHARACTER
LEARNING
Memory aid
A hand (爫) sheltering (冖) a friend (友) — caring is loving.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #41
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
- Reviewed by
- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-14
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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