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

affection / friendly feelings towards sb / love
to make a clear difference between what one likes and what one hates / to have well-defined likes and dislikes
to love sb (or sth) as one loves life itself
abbr. for iQiyi 愛奇藝|爱奇艺[Ai4 Qi2 yi4], Youku 優酷|优酷[You1 ku4] and Tencent 騰訊|腾讯[Teng2 xun4]
X-ray (loanword) / Röntgen or Roentgen ray
(Buddhism) the pain of parting with what (or whom) one loves, one of the eight distresses 八苦[ba1 ku3]
iAsk.com, the search engine of Sina 新浪
to love one's country as one's own family (praise for a virtuous ruler)
iQiyi, online video platform based in Beijing, launched in 2010
Ionian Sea between Italy and Greece
see 阿伊努[A1 yi1 nu3]
lit. love the house and its crow (idiom); involvement with sb and everyone connected / Love me, love my dog.
see 愛屋及烏|爱屋及乌[ai4 wu1 ji2 wu1]
to love sth too much to part with it (idiom)

Sentences with 爱

爱 currently does not appear in any sentence.