‘ai’ kanji combination: woman + heart + ?

Hello,

I’m trying to get a grasp on something about japanese and came across a class that lectured about ways to read kanji:

There are groups of kanjis and in one of them, you can have a combination of kanjis to form another.

I realized that the ‘ai’ kanji (愛, love) can be a combination of ‘onna’ (女, woman) and ‘kokoro’ (心, heart) and there’s a third segment on top that i still don’t know what it is.

Woman and heart makes sense to express the idea of love, but what does the third kanji mean?

by BrunoJ–

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