哀

Translingual

Han character

哀 (radical 30 口+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 卜口竹女 (YRHV), four-corner 0073₂)

1. sad, mournful, pitiful
2. pity

References

• KangXi: page 188, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3580
• Dae Jaweon: page 407, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 620, character 10
• Unihan data for U+54C0

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Cantonese

Hanzi

哀 (Yale oi1)

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Japanese

Kanji

哀 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: あい (ai)
• Kun: あわれ (aware), あわれむ (awaremu), かなしい (kanashii)

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Korean

Hanja

哀 (hangeul 애, revised ae, McCune-Reischauer ae)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

哀 (pinyin āi (ai1), Wade-Giles ai¹)

Compounds

• 哀傷

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Vietnamese

Han character

哀 (ai)