Memory phrase for the character: 暧


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Meaning

(of daylight) dim, obscure, clandestine, dubious

Pronunciation

ài

Explanation

Left: sun 日, right: love 爱 (The hand 爫 that gives you a cover 冖 from above (i.e. a blanket?) is of the friend 友 who loves you.) [friend 友 = two shaking hands , 又]

Mnemonic


 
The sun is what I'd love, if it is dim and obscure.

Radicals

sun, dayThis radical was developed from a circle with a central dot as the image of the sun. As you can hardly draw circles or dots with a brush, it became the current rectangular shape.
loveNote the similarity to the radical “to help” 爰. There, an upper hand 爫 helps a lower hand 又 through a rope ノ with two knots 二.
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 Vocabulary

暧昧 ài mèi  vague; ambiguous; equivocal; dubious
暧昧 ài mèi  


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