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

斯图里亚斯 ā sī tú lǐ yà sī Asturias, northwest Spanish autonomous principality on the bay of Biscay; ancient Spanish kingdom from which the reconquista was based
比西尼亚 ā bǐ xī ní yà Abyssinia, historical name of Ethiopia
尔伯塔 ā ěr bó tǎ Alberta province of Canada, capital Edmonton 埃德蒙頓|埃德蒙顿[Ai1 de2 meng2 dun4]
留申群岛 ā liú shēn qún dǎo Aleutian Islands (trailing 2250 km southwest of Alaska almost down to Kamtchatka)
苏山 ā sū shān Mount Aso, active volcano in Kyushu, Japan
西莫夫 ā xī mò fū Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), American author and biochemist
里斯托芬 ā lǐ sī tuō fēn Aristophanes (c. 448-380 BC), Greek comic playwright
雷诺 léi nuò ā Renoir (name); Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), French impressionist painter
斯 bō ā sī Boaz (son of Salmon and Rahab)
克拉 ā kè lā Accra, capital of Ghana
利坎特 ā lì kǎn tè Alicante
卡 ā kǎ Acre, city in Israel, also known as Akko
妹 ā mèi younger sister
妈 ā mā grandma (paternal) (Tw); (dialect) mother; nurse; amah; (Manchu) father
森 ā sēn Assen, city in the Netherlands
皮亚 ā pí yà Apia, capital of the Independent State of Samoa
萨姆 ā sà mǔ Assam, India
姨 sān ā yí auntie, third eldest of sisters in mother's family
姨 èr ā yí auntie, second eldest of sisters in mother's family
亚西尔・拉法特 yà xī ěr ・ 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・拉法特 yà xī ěr ・ ā lā fǎ tè Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (1929-2004), Palestinian leader, popularly known as Yasser Arafat
何西书 hé xī ā shū Book of Hosea
何西書 hé xī ā shū Book of Hosea
剛正不 gāng zhèng bù ē upright and plainspoken
努库洛法 nǔ kù ā luò fǎ Nuku'alofa, capital of Tonga