爱 (ài) means Love (like). Below are 24 of the 55 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
请 爱 护公共设施。
Qǐng àihù gōnggòng shèshī.
Please take care of public facilities.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 设施
她的 爱 好是听音乐。
Tā de àihào shì tīng yīnyuè.
Her hobby is listening to music.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 音乐
妹妹最 爱 吃巧克力。
Mèimei zuì ài chī qiǎokèlì.
My little sister loves chocolate most of all.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 巧克力
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From the graded readers
我很 爱 我的家。
wǒ hěn ài wǒ de(possessive) jiā.
I love my family very much.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Family
他看了很久，最后只说了一句：“你比以前 爱 笑了。”
tā kànle hěn jiǔ, zuìhòu zhī shuōle yī jù:" nǐ bǐ yǐqián ài xiào le / liǎo / liào."
He looked around for a long time and in the end said only, "You smile more than you used to."
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Changing Jobs
我不敢说自己 爱 上了跑步——说实话，我到现在也不太喜欢。
wǒ bùgǎn shuō zìjǐ àishàng le / liǎo / liào pǎobù—— shuō shíhuà, wǒ dào xiànzài yěbù tài xǐhuan.
I wouldn't claim to have fallen in love with running — honestly, I still don't much like it.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Keeping Up Running
爱 appears in 55 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 爱
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 爱
How is 爱 used in a sentence?
This page shows 55 sentences using 爱 (ài, "Love (like)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 爱 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 爱 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 爱 an HSK word?
Yes — 爱 is on the official HSK 1 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 1 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 爱?
The dictionary page for 爱 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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