Lǎoshī hé tā àiren dài zhe cānjiā hūnlǐ de rén láidào yí ge gōngyuán.
The teacher and her husband took the wedding guests to a park.
Sentence #397955 from Tatoeba · translation adapted
How 爱人 is built
Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.
爱àito love; to be fond of; to like
爫claw form of 爪 · zhǎo
冖cover · mì
友friend · yǒu
Memory aidA hand 爫 bringing a friend 友 under a cover 冖: love.
人rénperson; peoplelight in 爱人
人 is a single shape of 2 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.
Memory aidA person walking, seen from the side: two legs.
How to write 爱人
爱 10 strokes · 人 2 strokes
Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.
Stroke order chart for 爱人 (àiren). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
爱人 (àiren) means “husband or wife” or “spouse”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it àiren: ài with a 4th tone, then ren with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 爱人 is written 愛人. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 个 (gè). For example, one husband or wife is 一个爱人 (yí ge àiren).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type airen with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 爱人 from the suggestions. Typing airen into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
爱人 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 5 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.
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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.
爱ài4th tone, falling
人renneutral tone, light and short
