to love; to be fond of; to like / affection / to be inclined (to do sth); to tend to (happen)

= + 𠂇 : Mnemonic symbol: A pair of swans who are in love.

= + 𠂇 : Albert Einstein hurt himself with a pair of scissors in the airplane's bathroom. He's already laying on a stretcher carried by two swans who are deeply in love with each other, being transported to the next hospital. A hospital... of love.

爱 character breakdown

"cover" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 14), occurring in 軍|军[jun1], 冠[guan1] etc, known as 禿寶蓋|秃宝盖[tu1 bao3 gai4] or 平寶蓋|平宝盖[ping2 bao3 gai4]

Mnemonic symbol: 冖 shall be represented by a saucepan lid. Marilyn Monroe (mi-) wants to use the bathroom in the space station (Ø4), but the door is broken! She tries to cover herself with a saucepan lid (冖) instead.
friend

= 𠂇 + : Maud Younger (y) is unable to take off her boxing gloves (又) in the outhouse's living room (ou3) on her own! Fortunately, a friend (友) comes over and helps her to take off the gloves by cutting them with a pair of scissors (𠂇).
to receive / to accept / to suffer / subjected to / to bear / to stand / pleasant / (passive marker)

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: 受 is often used in a negative sense, when something bad happens to the speaker. I thus represent 受 by a stretcher, which is used to transport injured persons.

= + + : Sherlock Holmes lost a boxing fight in the outhouse, and he's lying on a stretcher in the bathroom now. He still has his boxing gloves on. He got beaten so badly that is opponent was even able to shave his head with an electric razor. Nobody had a cover at hand, so he's just provisionally covered with a cooking top.
"claw" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 87)

Mnemonic symbol: the strokes of this character remind me of a smiling mouth over a beard; thus, I'll represent it by an electric razor. James II of England (zh) uses his electric razor (爫) to shave his beard in the aorta's living room (ao3).
Character component without intrinsic meaning

𠂇 = 丿 + : 𠂇 looks like a pair of scissors. Imagine a pair of scissors (𠂇) cutting open a banana (丿) to find a flute (一) inside.

Characters with 爱 as component

(of daylight) dim / obscure / clandestine / dubious

= + : Albert Einstein (Ø) is clandestinely (暧) meeting a pair of swans who are in love (爱) during the dim (暧) time of the day in the airplane's bathroom (ai4). The light is very dim (暧) because they're hiding from the sun (日) so that the sun doesn't know they're all in a messed up shady (暧) love triangle.
fine quality jade
your daughter (honorific)
to belch / (interj. of disapproval)
(interj. of regret)
misty / cloudy sky / dark / obscure

Words with 爱

sex / lovemaking
to like / to love / to be fond of / favorite
friendly affection / fraternal love
loving affection (in a couple) / conjugal love
universal fraternity (or brotherhood) / universal love
to resign oneself to part with what one treasures
to favor the rich and disdain the poor (idiom) / snobbish
title of a Daoist priest / revered master
respect the old and cherish the young
to honor the wise and love the people / respecting noble talent while protecting the common people
cutie / sweetie / (Tw) camisole (women's garment)
phi (Greek letter Φφ)
Eileen Chang (1920-1995), famous Chinese-American novelist
Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849), American poet and novelist
to be faithful to the ruler and love one's country (idiom)
hatred caused by love (idiom) / to grow to hate someone because of unrequited love for that person
tolerant and lenient (idiom)

Sentences with 爱

爱 currently does not appear in any sentence.