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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		艾

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ài, yì (ai⁴, yi⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄞˋ, ㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ngaai⁶
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): ngie
• Min Nan (POJ): hiāⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: ài
    • Zhuyin: ㄞˋ
    • Wade-Giles: ai⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ay
    • IPA ^(key): /ˀaɪ̯⁵¹/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yì
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˋ
    • Wade-Giles: i⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yih
    • IPA ^(key): /i⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ngaai⁶
    • Yale: ngaaih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ngaai⁶
    • IPA ^(key): /ŋɑːi̯²²/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ngie
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /ɲi̯e⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hiāⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: hiānn
    • IPA (Taipei): /hiã³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hiã²²/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (艾, reconstructed)
Character (艾), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 疑 (31) Final: 泰 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 五蓋切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ŋɑiH/	/ŋɑiH/	/ŋɑiH/	/ŋɑiH/	/ŋajH/	/ŋɑiH/	/ŋɑiH/
Character (艾), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 疑 (31) Final: 廢 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 魚肺切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ŋɨɐiH/	/ŋi̯ɐiH/	/ŋiɐiH/	/ŋiɐiH/	/ŋɨajH/	/ŋĭɐiH/	/ŋiɐiH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (艾, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
艾								ài								‹ ngajH ›								/*C.ŋˤa[t]-s/								Artemisia; moxa
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
艾					14953					乂					祭					1					艾					/*ŋaːds/
艾					14958					乂					祭					1					刈					/*ŋads/

Compounds

• 艾草 (ài cǎo)
• 野艾 (yě ài)

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Japanese

Kanji

艾

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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

1. (쑥) moxa, mugwort

See also

• 灸 (구, gu) moxibustion

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Vietnamese

Han character

艾 (ngải, nghệ, nghễ)

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