埃 — Chinese character
埃
āi
fine dust; dirt; Angstrom
- Pinyin
- āi
- Radical
- 32 ⼟ (Earth)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 土 矣
- Formation
- pictophonetic — earth; meaning component 土; sound component 矣
- Japanese
- 埃 as a kanji
Common words with 埃
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 尘埃 (塵埃) | chén āi | dust |
| 埃米 | āi mǐ | angstrom (Å) |
| 埃米尔 (埃米爾) | āi mǐ ěr | (loanword) emir; amir |
| 尘埃落定 (塵埃落定) | chén āi luò dìng | lit. the dust has settled (idiom); fig. to get sorted out |
| 埃斯库多 (埃斯庫多) | āi sī kù duō | escudo, former currency of Portugal and other countries |
| 埃居 | āi jū | écu (French coin, discontinued by the end of the 18th century) |
| 埃尔尼诺 (埃爾尼諾) | āi ěr ní nuò | see 厄尔尼诺 (è ěr ní nuò) |
| 埃蕾 | āi lěi | centaury herb with flowers (TCM); Herba Centaurii altaici cum flore |
| 山埃 | shān āi | cyanide (loanword); same as 氰化 |
| 涓埃 | juān āi | tiny stream of dust; tiny things |
| 涓埃之力 | juān āi zhī lì | negligible force (idiom); tiny force |
| 满身尘埃 (滿身塵埃) | mǎn shēn chén āi | dusty |
English words written with 埃
埃 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.