哎

哎 U+54CE, 哎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-54CE ← 响 [U+54CD] CJK Unified Ideographs 哏 → [U+54CF]

Translingual

Han character

哎 (Kangxi radical 30, 口くち+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 口くち廿にじゅう大だい (RTK), four-corner 6404₀, composition ⿰口くち艾もぐさ)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 189, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3628
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 598, character 3
• Unihan data for U+54CE

Chinese

trad.		哎
simp. #		哎
alternative forms		噯／嗳

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲けいせい／形声けいせい) : semantic 口くち (“mouth”) + phonetic 艾もぐさ (OC *ŋaːds, *ŋads).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): āi (ai¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄞ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): aai¹ / ai³

• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): ái
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): ai

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: āi
    • Zhuyin: ㄞ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ai
    • Wade–Giles: ai¹
    • Yale: āi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ai
    • Palladius: ай (aj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀaɪ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: aai¹ / ai³
    • Yale: āai / ai
    • Cantonese Pinyin: aai¹ / ai³
    • Guangdong Romanization: ai¹ / ei³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /aːi̯⁵⁵/, /ɐi̯³³/

Note: The zero initial /∅-/ is commonly pronounced with a ng-initial /ŋ-/ in some varieties of Cantonese, including Hong Kong Cantonese.

• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ái
    • Hakka Romanization System: ai`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ai³
    • Sinological IPA: /ai̯³¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: ai
    • Tâi-lô: ai
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ay
    • IPA (Xiamen): /ai⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ai³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ai⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ai⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /ai⁴⁴/

Definitions

哎

1. Interjection of surprise.

Compounds

• 哎呀
• 哎喲／哎哟

 

References

• “哎”, in 漢語かんご多功たこう能のう字じ庫こ (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港ほんこん中ちゅう文ぶん大學だいがく (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

哎

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. interjection of surprise

Readings

• On (unclassified): がい (gai); あい (ai)

Korean

Hanja

哎 • (ae) (hangeul 애)

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Vietnamese

Han character

哎: Hán Nôm readings: ngáy, ngửi

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Zhuang

Verb

哎

1. Sawndip form of ae (“to cough”)