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挚爱

zhì ài

2-character word Traditional 摯愛

What 挚爱 means

1. true love

The characters in 挚爱

• 挚zhìsincere
• 爱àito love; to be fond of; to like; affection; to be inclined (to do sth)…

Example sentences

• 你就是我永远的挚爱。
  Nǐ jiùshì wǒ yǒngyuǎn de zhì'ài.
  It's you I'll always love.
• 我们在书中认识的人可以带给我们愉悦或是他们与我们生活中挚爱的朋友相似，或是因为他们是我们所不熟悉却乐于结识的人。
  Wǒmen zài shū zhōng rènshi de rén kěyǐ dàigěi wǒmen yúyuè huòshì tāmen yǔ wǒmen shēnghuó zhōng zhì'ài de péngyou xiāngsì, huòshì yīnwèi tāmen shì wǒmen suǒ bù shúxī què lèyú jiéshí de rén.
  The people we meet in books can delight us either because they resemble the friends we hold dear in real life, or because they are unfamiliar people that we are pleased to get to know.
• 如果没有我过去16年最好的朋友、我们家庭的中坚、我生命中的挚爱，我今天晚上不可能站在这里，美国下一位第一夫人米歇尔-奥巴马。
  Rúguǒ méiyǒu wǒ guòqù 16 nián zuì hǎo de péngyou, wǒmen jiātíng de zhōngjiān, wǒ shēngmìng zhōng de zhì'ài, wǒ jīntiān wǎnshang bù kěnéng zhàn zài zhèlǐ, Měiguó xià yī wèi dìyīfūrén Mǐxiē'ěr - àobāmǎ.
  And I would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my best friend for the last 16 years, the rock of our family, the love of my life, the nation's next first lady, Michelle Obama.

Sounds the same

Read zhì ài, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 至爱most beloved
• 窒碍(literary) to be obstructed