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艾 Ai — a rarer surname
76.1 / 100 overall fit
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| Pinyin | Ai |
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| Strokes | 6 |
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| Commonness | outside the top 100 |
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| Type | single-character |
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Where the surname comes from
A surname meaning 'mugwort', from the ancient state of Ai.
What the character means
graceful and resilient
Why it scores this way
Easy to say96
Reads the way it looks for an English speaker — no sounds English doesn't have.
Recognised in China45
Outside the top 100 — distinctive, but some people will ask you to repeat or write it.
Easy to write90
6 strokes — one of the simpler surnames to write and sign.
People who carried this name
- Ai Qing — Poet (1910–1996), author of the immortal 'Dayan River, My Nanny'.
- Ai Siqi — Chinese Marxist philosopher, known for popularizing dialectical materialism in the 1930s-40s. Author of 'Philosophy for the Masses'.
- Ai Wu — Modern Chinese writer, member of the League of Left-Wing Writers. Famous for southern frontier-themed novels and short stories.
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