ā

prefix before names; sound in loanwords

HSK 3 #471

Character data

HSK 3
Frequency 471st character
Radical ⾩ (170.5)
Strokes 7
Index # 913

Definitions

阿 ā
  1. 1. prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity
  2. 2. used in transliteration
  3. 3. also pr. à
  4. 4. abbr. for Afghanistan ā fù hàn
阿 ē
  1. 1. flatter

Stroke order

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Words containing 阿

Word Meaning
Afar region of northeast Ethiopia; Afar people
Afar Desert, Southern Ethiopia
Afar Desert, Southern Ethiopia
Alfa Romeo
Alfa Romeo
Apollo (loanword)
Apollo program, NASA moon project
US Apollo moon landing program
Alofi, capital of Niue
(dialect) idler; loafer
Abba (Aramaic word father)
Alberta, a province of Canada
Albert (name)
the Algarve (southern region of Portugal)
the Algarve (southern region of Portugal)
Alps (mountain range)
Alps (mountain range)
Alcatel, old company name
Alcatel, old company name
Algeria
Algerian
Algiers, capital of Algeria
Alcántara, municipality in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain
Alcantara, place name in Spain and Brazil
Arxan city in Inner Mongolia