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阿
ā
What 阿 means
- prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity
- used in transliteration
- bound formAfghanistan (abbr. for {阿富汗|Ā fù hàn})
- bound formAlbania (abbr. for {阿尔巴尼亚|Ā ěr bā ní yà})
- bound formAlgeria (abbr. for {阿尔及利亚|Ā ěr jí lì yà})
- bound formArgentina (abbr. for {阿根廷|Ā gēn tíng})
- also pr. à
Other readings
Example sentences
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阿嚏!ātì!Achoo!
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阿妈买马。āmā mǎi mǎ.Your grandmother bought a horse.
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阿弥陀佛。ēmítuófó.Praise be to Buddha.
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阿伦是诗人。ālún shì shīrén.Allan is a poet.
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阿里是个好人。ālǐ shì ge hǎorén.Ali is a good person.
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他写阿拉伯文。Tā xiě ālābówén.He writes Arabic.
Words starting with 阿
- 阿姨ā yímaternal aunt; step-mother; childcare worker
- 阿拉伯Ā lā bóArabian; Arabic; Arab
- 阿里Ā lǐ(name) Ali; Ali (c. 600–661), the fourth caliph of Islam…
- 阿富汗Ā fù hànAfghanistan
- 阿根廷Ā gēn tíngArgentina
- 阿拉ā lā(Wu dialect) I; me; my; we; us; our
- 阿拉伯人Ā lā bó rénArab; Arabian; Arabian people
- 阿里巴巴Ā lǐ Bā bāAli Baba, character from The Arabian Nights
- 阿拉伯语Ā lā bó yǔArabic (language)
- 阿伦Ā lúnAalen, town in Germany
- 阿拉法特Ā lā fǎ tèMohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (1929-2004), Palestinian…
- 阿拉伯文Ā lā bó wénArabic (language & writing)
- 阿曼Ā mànOman
- 阿婆ā pógranny; mother-in-law
- 阿弥陀佛Ē mí tuó FóAmitabha Buddha; the Buddha of the Western paradise; may the lord Buddha preserve us!
- 阿姆斯特丹Ā mǔ sī tè dānAmsterdam, capital of Netherlands
- 阿哥ā gē(familiar) elder brother
- 阿凡提Ā fán títhe Effendi (Nasreddin), the hero of folk tales of the Muslim world, known for his wisdom…
- 阿森纳Ā sēn nàArsenal Football Club
- 阿波罗Ā bō luóApollo (loanword)
- 阿联酋Ā lián qiúUnited Arab Emirates (abbr. for 阿拉伯联合酋长国
- 阿明Ā míngAl-Amin
- 阿尔及利亚Ā ěr jí lì yàAlgeria
- 阿巴斯Ā bā sīMahmoud Abbas (1935–), Palestinian politician, president of the Palestinian National…
Words containing 阿
- 沙特阿拉伯Shā tè Ā lā bóSaudi Arabia
- 麦克阿瑟Mài kè ā sèGeneral Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), US commander in Pacific during WW2, sacked in 1951…
- 迈阿密Mài ā mìMiami (Florida)
- 雷诺阿Léi nuò āPierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), French Impressionist painter
- 巴阿Bā ĀPakistan-Afghan
- 何西阿书Hé xī ā shūBook of Hosea
- 努美阿Nǔ měi āNouméa, capital of New Caledonia
- 波阿斯Bō ā sīBoaz (son of Salmon and Rahab)
- 明尼阿波利斯Míng ní ā bō lì sīMinneapolis, a nameplace in the USA, notably in Minnesota
- 瓦努阿图Wǎ nǔ ā túVanuatu, country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean
- 山阿shān ēa nook in the mountains
- 刚正不阿gāng zhèng bù ēupright and plainspoken
- 图阿雷格Tú ā léi géTuareg (nomadic people of the Sahara)
- 雷阿尔城Léi ā ěr chéngCiudad Real
- 沙特阿拉伯人Shā tè Ā lā bó réna Saudi; Saudi Arabian person
- 守正不阿shǒu zhèng bù ēto be strictly just and impartial
- 努库阿洛法Nǔ kù ā luò fǎNuku'alofa (capital of Tonga)
- 非阿贝尔fēi ā bèi ěr(math) non-abelian
- 沙乌地阿拉伯Shā wū dì Ā lā bóSaudi Arabia (Tw)
- 泰阿Tài ēname of a famous sword mentioned in ancient texts
- 荷尼阿拉Hé ní ā lāHoniara, capital of Solomon Islands (Tw)
- 赫图阿拉Hè tú ā lāHetu Ala (Manchu: Yellow Rock), Nurhaci's capital at the 1619 Battle of Sarhu
- 倒持泰阿dào chí Tài ē(lit.) to present the handle of a sword to another (idiom)…
- 东阿县Dōng ē XiànDong'e, a county in Liaocheng City 聊城市
Characters that look like 阿
Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.
- 何héwhat; how; why
- 附fùto add; to attach; to be close to; to be attached
- 防fángto protect; to defend; to guard against
- 阳yángpositive (electric.); sun; male principle (Taoism)
- 陀tuó(phonetic); declivity; steep bank
- 坷kēused in 坷垃
Sounds the same
Read ā, tone for tone, but written differently.
- 啊interjection of surprise; Ah!; Oh!
- 腌used in 腌臜; Taiwan pr. āng
- 吖(used in transliterating chemical names)
- 锕actinium (chemistry)
- 呵variant of 啊
Where 阿 is taught
In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 3 Characters · Set 15 (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.
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