爱
ài
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 愛
To love: to feel deep affection for a person, a place or a thing. 我爱你 is 'I love you'. Before a verb it means doing something gladly and often: 爱喝茶 'love drinking tea'. It is stronger than 喜欢 'to like'.
Yêu, thương một người, một nơi hay một thứ gì. 我爱你 là “anh yêu em”, “em yêu anh”. Đứng trước động từ thì chỉ việc rất thích làm, hay làm: 爱喝茶 (rất thích uống trà). Mức độ mạnh hơn 喜欢 (thích).
VerbRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 爱/愛 = ái · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “爱” mean?
To love: to feel deep affection for a person, a place or a thing. 我爱你 is 'I love you'. Before a verb it means doing something gladly and often: 爱喝茶 'love drinking tea'. It is stronger than 喜欢 'to like'.
Is “爱” formal or informal?
爱 is generally neutral.