# 藹

| 藹 | U+85F9, &#34297; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-85F9 |
| ← 藸 [U+85F8] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 藺 → [U+85FA] |

## Translingual
### Han character

藹 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+16, 22 strokes, cangjie input 廿卜口女 (TYRV) or 難廿卜口女 (XTYRV), four-corner 4462$_7$, composition ⿱艹謁)

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1067, character 7
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 32397
* Dae Jaweon: page 1533, character 5
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3328, character 3
* Unihan data for U+85F9

## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): ǎi (ai$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄞˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): oi$^2$
* Eastern Min (BUC): āi
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ài / ái
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: ǎi
*** Zhuyin: ㄞˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: ǎi
*** Wade–Giles: ai$^3$
*** Yale: ǎi
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ae
*** Palladius: ай (aj)
*** Sinological IPA : /ˀaɪ̯²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: oi$^2$
*** Yale: ói
*** Cantonese Pinyin: oi$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: oi$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /ɔːi̯³⁵/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: āi
*** Sinological IPA : /ai³³/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ài
*** Tâi-lô: ài
*** Phofsit Daibuun: aix
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ai²¹/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /ai⁴¹/
** (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ái
*** Tâi-lô: ái
*** Phofsit Daibuun: ae
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /ai⁴¹/
*** IPA (Taipei): /ai⁵³/
* Middle Chinese: 'ajH
Rime :
| Character | 藹 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 影 (34) |
| Final (韻) | 泰 (25) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 於蓋切 |
| Baxter | 'ajH |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ʔɑi$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ʔɑi$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ʔɑi$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ʔaj$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /ʔɑi$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /ɑi$^H$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /ʔɑi$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | ài |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | oi$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*qˤa[t]-s/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 藹 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | ǎi |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ ʔaj$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*qˁa[t]-s/ |
| English | ample, numerous |
| 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. ||

### Definitions

藹
* amiable; nice; kind
* (literary) lush; exuberant
* a surname

### Compounds

* 和藹／和蔼 (hé'ǎi)
* 和藹可親／和蔼可亲 (hé'ǎikěqīn)
* 慈藹／慈蔼
* 春風藹吉／春风蔼吉
* 晻藹／暗蔼
* 暗藹／暗蔼
* 芳藹／芳蔼
* 菴藹／庵蔼
* 藹如／蔼如
* 藹彩／蔼彩
* 藹然／蔼然 (ǎirán)
* 藹然可親／蔼然可亲 (ǎiránkěqīn)
* 藹藹／蔼蔼 (ǎi'ǎi)
* 蘊藹／蕴蔼
* 門闌藹瑞／门阑蔼瑞

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): あい (ai)、あつ (atsu)
* Kun: おおい (ōi)、まめまめしい (mamemameshī)

## Korean
### Hanja

藹 • (ae) (hangeul 애, revised ae, McCune–Reischauer ae, Yale ay)
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