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爱 — stroke order
Watch how to write 爱 (ài) stroke by stroke. 爱 has 10 strokes and means “to love”. It appears in common words such as 爱情 (romance) and 可爱 (adorable). The animation follows the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap the cell or the ↺ button to replay it.
Common words with 爱
The most common words that use 爱 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
How 爱 is written
- Radical
- 爫
- Components
- 爫 ＋ 冖 ＋ 友
- Formation
- Ideographic — To bring a friend 友 into one's house 冖.