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亲爱

qīn ài 1–4

dear; beloved; darling

HSK level
HSK 4
HSK 2.0 level 5 · HSK 3.0 level 4
Characters
2
亲 · 爱
Syllables
2
qīn ài
Frequency
Common
corpus count 1,202

Part of speech: a

Character by character

  • 亲qīn9 strokesHSK 3 traditional 親relatives, parents; intimate the hazel nut or filbert tree a thorny tree
  • 爱ài10 strokesHSK 1 traditional 愛love, be fond of, like

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 亲爱. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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