āi
dust
dirt
Angstrom or Ångström, unit of length equal to 10^-10 meters
phonetic ai or e
abbr. for Egypt 埃及[Ai1 ji2]
ái è
to go hungry
to endure starvation
famished
xíng yì
derivation of a Chinese loanword from Japanese by using the same characters (or variants) but applying Chinese pronunciation (e.g. 場合|场合[chang3 he2], derived from Japanese 場合, pronounced "ba'ai")