艾
yì
#1,289 most
frequent character
variant of 刈[yi4], variant of 乂[yi4]
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
艾 has 艹, plants, as its meaning part and 乂 yì as the sound part. It first meant the mugwort plant, under both readings. Read ài, the sense 'to stop' was borrowed for its sound; read yì, so was 'to punish'.
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