アイ

See also: あい and Appendix:Variations of "ai"

Ainu

Noun

アイ • (ay)

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References

• Batchelor, John (1926) An Ainu-English-Japanese Dictionary, third edition, Tokyo: Kyobunkan
• “ay (アイ)”, in Ainu-English Dictionary‎^[1], TranslationDirectory.com, 2023 May 1 (last accessed)

Japanese

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ア​イ [áꜜì] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [a̠i]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English i.

Noun

アイ • (ai) 

1. The name of the Latin-script letter I.

Coordinate terms

• (Latin-script letter names) エー (ē), ビー (bī), シー (shī), ディー (dī), イー (ī), エフ (efu), ジー (jī), エッチ (etchi)/エイチ (eichi), アイ (ai), ジェー (jē), ケー (kē), エル (eru), エム (emu), エヌ (enu), オー (ō), ピー (pī), キュー (kyū), アール (āru), エス (esu), ティー (tī), ユー (yū), ブイ (bui)/ヴィー (vī), ダブリュー (daburyū), エックス (ekkusu), ワイ (wai), ゼット (zetto) ^{(Category: ja:Latin letter names)}

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English eye.

Noun

アイ • (ai) 

1. Synonym of 目 (me, “eye”)

Derived terms

• アイシャドー (aishadō, “eyeshadow”)

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of アイ – see the following entry.

【藍あい】S [noun] the Japanese indigo or Chinese indigo plant, Persicaria tinctoria [noun] the color indigo, from the dye processed from the stems and leaves of various indigo plants [noun] Short for 藍蝋 (airō): indigo pigment made from boiled-down indigo dye liquid [proper noun] a female given name [proper noun] a surname

(This term, アイ, is the katakana spelling of the above term.)