ā

prefix for people's names; used in transliteration

HSK 3 #471

DEFINITIONS

阿 ā
  • abbr. for Afghanistan 阿富汗[A1 fu4 han4]
  • prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity
  • used in transliteration
  • also pr. [a4]
阿 ē
  • flatter

STROKES

WORDS

迪达斯 ā dí dá sī Adidas (sportswear company)
刚正不 gāng zhèng bù ē upright and plainspoken
埃涅斯 āi niè ā sī Aeneas, hero of Virgil's Aeneid
克伦 ā kè lún Acheron River in Epirus, northwest Greece
多尼斯 ā duō ní sī Adonis, figure in Greek mythology
巴拉契亚 ā bā lā qì yà Appalachian Mountains in North America
拉木图 ā lā mù tú Almaty, previous capital of Kazakhstan
维拉 ā wéi lā Avila, Spain
华田 ā huà tián Ovaltine (brand)
卜杜拉 ā bǔ dù lā Abdullah (name)
拉丁 ā lā dīng Aladdin, character in one of the tales in the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
斗 ā dǒu A-dou, nickname of Liu Chan 劉禪|刘禅 (207-271), son of Liu Bei, reigned as Shu Han emperor 233-263; fig. weak and inept person
斯塔纳 ā sī tǎ nà Astana, capital of Kazakhstan
美尼亚 ā měi ní yà variant of 亞美尼亞|亚美尼亚[Ya4 mei3 ni2 ya4], Armenia
莫西林 ā mò xī lín amoxicillin (loanword)
瓦努图 wǎ nǔ ā tú Vanuatu in south pacific (formerly New Hebrides)
丹 ā dān Adam (name); Aden, capital of Yemen
卡贝拉 ā kǎ bèi lā a cappella (loanword)
塞拜疆 ā sài bài jiāng Azerbaijan
姆哈拉 ā mǔ hā lā Amhara (province, language and ethnic group of Ethiopia); Amharic; Ethiopian
布哈兹 ā bù hā zī Abkhazia, region in Georgia
布扎比 ā bù zhā bǐ Abu Dhabi, capital of United Arab Emirates (UAE)
拉伯半岛 ā lā bó bàn dǎo Arabian Peninsula
拉伯海 ā lā bó hǎi Arabian Sea
拉法特 ā lā fǎ tè Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (1929-2004), Palestinian leader, popularly known as Yasser Arafat 亞西爾·阿拉法特|亚西尔·阿拉法特[Ya4 xi1 er3 · A1 la1 fa3 te4]