暧 (曖) ài

1. ài adjective obscure; dim; ambiguous; vague
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '曖'; Kroll 2015 '曖' 1a; Mathews 1931 '曖' p. 3; NCCED '暧' 2; Unihan '曖')
2. ài adjective overcast
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '曖' 1; NCCED '暧' 1)
3. ài adjective ūṣman
   Domain: Buddhism 佛教
   Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: ūṣman, Japanese: ai (BCSD '暧', p. 608; Unihan '暧')

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暧昧 、 暧昧关系 、 暧暧

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• Scroll 77 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 4
• Scroll 15 Guang Hong Ming Ji 廣弘明集 — count: 3 , has English translation
• Scroll 2 Hongming Ji (Collection on the Propagation and Clarification of Buddhism) 弘明集 — count: 3 , has English translation
• Scroll 30 Guang Hong Ming Ji 廣弘明集 — count: 3 , has English translation
• Scroll 88 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 2
• Scroll 1 Western Dhāraṇī Matrix Vajra Amṛitakuṇḍali Ritual (Xifang Tuoluoni Cang Zhong Jingang Zu Amiliduojunzhali Fa) 西方陀羅尼藏中金剛族阿蜜哩多軍吒利法 — count: 2
• Scroll 1 Beishan Record 北山錄 — count: 2
• Scroll 95 The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義 — count: 2
• Scroll 1 Shijia Pu 釋迦譜 — count: 1
• Scroll 63 Fa Yuan Zhu Lin 法苑珠林 — count: 1

Collocations

• 雾暧 (霧曖) 雖虛影霧曖即是 — Shijia Pu 釋迦譜, Scroll 3 — count: 3
• 声暧 (聲曖) 故五十三聖聲曖微塵之前 — Shijia Pu 釋迦譜, Scroll 1 — count: 2
• 云暧 (雲曖) 哀岱反考聲云曖日光景也說文從日愛聲 — The Sounds and Meanings of all the Terms in the Canonical Texts 一切經音義, Scroll 88 — count: 2
• 晻暧 (晻曖) 馳妄他求之晻曖 — Song Biographies of Eminent Monks 宋高僧傳, Scroll 7 — count: 2