Ai (c. 2000 BC), sixth of legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝[Yan2 di4] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2] Farmer God, also known as Li 釐|厘[Li2]

= + : Albert Einstein (Ø) and Ai (哀) are grieving (哀) for a dead mandarin (口) in front of the airplane (ai1). As a last service they put it in a kilt (衣) and bury it.
sorrow; grief; pity / to grieve for; to pity; to lament; to condole

= + : Albert Einstein (Ø) and Ai (哀) are grieving (哀) for a dead mandarin (口) in front of the airplane (ai1). As a last service they put it in a kilt (衣) and bury it.

哀 character breakdown

mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

Mnemonic symbol: 口 shall be represented by a mandarin. Karl Marx (k-) is enjoying a mandarin in the outhouse's living room (ou3).
clothes / CL:件[jian4] / Kangxi radical 145

= 𧘇 + : Mnemonic symbol: kilt.

= 𧘇 + : In front of the space station, Maud Younger doesn't have a wardrobe, but just a step ladder. It's still enough for her kilt though, which she can just put over the ladder so that it doesn't lose its form, and her beret, which she puts on top of the ladder.
to dress / to wear / to put on (clothes)

Characters with 哀 as component

einsteinium (chemistry)
to sob / wail

Words with 哀

to cry piteously / anguished wailing / same as 哀嚎[ai1 hao2]
(of animals, the wind etc) to make a mournful sound / whine; moan; wail
funeral music / plaint / dirge
to take pity on / to feel sorry for
deeply felt but not mawkish (idiom)
plaintive and beautiful / melancholy but gorgeous
nothing sadder than a withered heart (idiom attributed to Confucius by Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3]) / no greater sorrow than a heart that never rejoices / the worst sorrow is not as bad as an uncaring heart / nothing is more wretched than apathy
variant of 哀辭|哀辞[ai1 ci2]
dirge / lament
lit. plaintive whine of geese (idiom); fig. land swarming with disaster victims / starving people fill the land
Lament for the South, long poem in Fu style by Yu Xin 庾信 mourning the passing of Liang of the Southern dynasties 南朝梁朝

Sentences with 哀

哀 currently does not appear in any sentence.