艾

Translingual

Han character

艾 (radical 140 艸+2, 8 strokes, cangjie input 廿大 (TK), X廿大 (XTK), four-corner 4440₀, composition ⿱艹乂)

1. artemisia, mugwort
2. used in transliteration
3. a Chinese surname

References

• KangXi: page 1017, character 9
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30648
• Dae Jaweon: page 1475, character 14
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3172, character 9
• Unihan data for U+827E

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Cantonese

Hanzi

艾 (jyutping ngaai6, Yale ngaai6)

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Japanese

Kanji

艾

Readings

• On: がい (gai), げい (gei)
• Kun: よもぎ (yomogi), もぐさ (mogusa), かる (karu)

Noun

艾 (hiragana もぐさ, romaji mogusa)

1. mugwort

Descendants

• English: moxa, moxibustion

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Korean

Hanja

艾 (hangeul 애, revised ae, McCune-Reischauer ae, Yale ay)

1. (쑥) moxa, mugwort

See also

• 灸 (구, gu) moxibustion

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Mandarin

Hanzi

艾 (pinyin ài (ai4), yì (yi4), Wade-Giles ai⁴, i⁴)

Compounds

• 艾草 (ài cǎo)
• 野艾 (yě ài)

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Vietnamese

Han character

艾 (ngải, nghệ, nghễ)