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蔼

ǎi

HSK 6 Character Traditional 藹

What 蔼 means

1. friendly

Example sentences

• 她是个和蔼可亲的人。
  Tā shì gè hé'ǎikěqīn de rén.
  She is good-natured.
• 她对谁都很和蔼可亲。
  Tā duì shéi dōu hěn hé'ǎi-kěqīn.
  She is gracious to everyone.
• 他是一个和蔼可亲的老师。
  He is a kind teacher.
• 汤姆和玛丽都很和蔼，对吗？
  Tāngmǔ hé Mǎlì dōu hěn hé'ǎi, duì ma?
  Tom and Mary aren't so kind, are they?
• 他天生就是一个和蔼可亲的人，所以很受住在附近的孩子欢迎。
  Tā tiānshēng jiùshì yī gè hé'ǎikěqīn de rén, suǒyǐ hěn shòu zhù zài fùjìn de háizi huānyíng.
  He is by nature a kind person and is popular with the children in his neighborhood.
• 他和蔼可亲，面带微笑。他告诉工作人员，他正在拜访朋友，他们住在一个受一日游游客欢迎的海滨度假胜地。近年来，这里与同性恋时尚联系在一起。
  He was affable and smiling, and he told staff he was visiting friends in a seaside resort popular with day-trippers and, in recent years, associated with gay chic.

Words starting with 蔼

• 蔼然ǎi ránamicable; amiable
• 蔼蔼ǎi ǎiluxuriant (vegetation)

Words containing 蔼

• 和蔼hé ǎikindly; nice; amiable
• 和蔼可亲hé ǎi kě qīnaffable; genial
• 慈蔼cí ǎi(of demeanor or expression) kindly; benevolent
• 温蔼wēn ǎigentle and kind

Characters that look like 蔼

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 箱xiāngbox; trunk; chest
• 蓬péngfleabane (family Asteraceae); disheveled; classifier for luxuriant plants, smoke, ashes…
• 蕉jiāobanana
• 蕴yùnto accumulate; to hold in store; to contain
• 蓓bèiused in 蓓蕾
• 蔻kòuused in 豆蔻

Sounds the same

Read ǎi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 矮(of a person) short; (of a wall etc) low; (of rank) inferior (to); lower (than)
• 嗳to belch; (interj. of disapproval)
• 霭mist; haze; cloudy sky
• 欸(Taiwan; literary) to rebuke loudly; (Taiwan; literary) to sigh; used in 欸乃
• 毐see historical character Lao Ai 嫪毐; by extension, person of reprehensible morals; immoral