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Definitions
- 1. prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity
- 2. also pr. [à]
Example Sentences
1 shown阿 們!
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 阿
Albacete, Spain
(chemistry) aniline (loanword)
weak and inept person
Sichote-Alin mountain range in Russian far east opposite Sakhalin Island
Nouméa, capital of New Caledonia
Alai (1959-), ethnic Tibetan Chinese writer, awarded Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2000 for his novel 塵埃落定|尘埃落定[chén āi luò dìng] \Red Poppies\",2025-02-14 13:18:22,2025-02-14 13:18:22 175942,124067,Ayshe
Accra, capital of Ghana
see 阿伊努[ā yī nǔ]
Amhara (province, language and ethnic group of Ethiopia)
auntie, third eldest of sisters in mother's family
see 孜然[zī rán], cumin
Ashgabat, capital of Turkmenistan
auntie, youngest of sisters in mother's family
Sichote-Alin mountain range in Russian far east opposite Sakhalin Island
General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), US commander in Pacific during WW2, sacked in 1951 by President Truman for exceeding orders during the Korean war
who
Alfa Romeo
Alicante
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British novelist and author of Brave New World 美麗新世界|美丽新世界[měi lì xīn shì jiè]
Ovaltine (brand)
Alzheimer's disease
Altai mountain chain on the border of Russia and Mongolia
(literary) (colloquial term of the Six Dynasties period 六朝[liù cháo]) this
Aruba, island in the Caribbean, a self-governing part of the Netherlands
Amazon
atabrine or quinacrine, used as antimalarial drug and antibiotic against intestinal parasite giardiasis
Aral shehiri (Aral city) or Ālā'ěr subprefecture level city in west Xinjiang
Amu Darya, the biggest river of Central Asia, from Pamir to Aral sea, forming the boundary between Afghanistan and Tajikistan then flowing through Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan
Abbas (name)
upright and plainspoken
Algerian
Arlington National Cemetery in Washington DC, USA
pistachio tree
Alxa league, a prefecture-level subdivision of Inner Mongolia
Abidjan (city in Ivory Coast)
Gulf of Oman
Arabic (language)
aspirin (loanword)
Arxan, county-level city, Mongolian Rashaant xot, in Hinggan league 興安盟|兴安盟[xīng ān méng], east Inner Mongolia
(loanword from Persian) imam
Azerbaijan
(literary) (euphemism) money (literally, \this thing\)
dad
Achilles (or Akhilleus or Achilleus), son of Thetis and Peleus, Greek hero central to the Iliad
Aladdin, character in one of the tales in the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
Almaty, previous capital of Kazakhstan
Alxa Right Banner, Mongolian Alshaa Baruun khoshuu, in Alxa League 阿拉善盟[ā lā shàn méng], Inner Mongolia (formerly in Gansu 1969-1979)
Aketedu county in Xinjiang (on the border with Kyrgyzstan)
El Alamein, town in Egypt
seed of ajwain
Ngawang Choephel (1966-), Tibetan musicologist and dissident, Fullbright scholar (1993-1994), jailed 1995-2002 then released to US
Epang Palace, palace complex in western Xi'an built by Qin Shihuang 秦始皇[qín shǐ huáng]
Ar Horqin banner or Aru Khorchin khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰[chì fēng], Inner Mongolia
the Algarve (southern region of Portugal)
(TCM) ashi point: a tender spot that is not a standard acupuncture point
Aberdeen (city on east coast of Scotland)
Avogadro's number (chemistry)
Buddhist teacher (Sanskrit transliteration)
Alzheimer's disease
Arxan, county-level city, Mongolian Rashaant xot, in Hinggan league 興安盟|兴安盟[xīng ān méng], east Inner Mongolia
Attila (406-453), Hun emperor, known as the scourge of God
Arabian Sea
gum arabic
the Apollo project (1961-1975), the NASA moon landing project
Mount Aso, active volcano in Kyushu, Japan
University of Arkansas
Amis or Pangcah, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
Wa, Kawa or Va ethnic group of Myanmar, south China and southeast Asia
maternal aunt
Renoir (name)
Alzheimer's disease
Ali (name)
granny
Ngawa County (Tibetan: rnga ba rdzong) in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州|阿坝藏族羌族自治州[ā bà zàng zú qiāng zú zì zhì zhōu], northwest Sichuan
Arcadia (Greek prefecture on the Peloponnese)
to be strictly just and impartial
Aqsu shehiri or Aksu city in Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang
Albert (name)
Arab Telecommunication Union
avatar (loanword)
aw, fuck! (loanword from Korean 아! 씨발!)
opium (loanword)
Aksai Chin, a disputed region in the Tibetan plateau
Ar Horqin banner or Aru Khorchin khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰[chì fēng], Inner Mongolia
Abu Sayyaf, militant Islamist separatist group also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya
Aztec (person)
Adderall (stimulant drug)
opium
Louis Pierre Althusser (1918-1990), Marxist philosopher
Aristophanes (c. 448-380 BC), Greek comic playwright
Aral shehiri (Aral city) or Ālā'ěr subprefecture level city in west Xinjiang
Scipio Africanus (235-183 BC), Roman general and statesman
Assam, India
Book of Hosea
Flos seu Herba Heteropappi altaici
Alaska, US state
Assad (Arabic name)
Martti Ahtisaari (1937-), Finnish diplomat and politician, veteran peace negotiator and 2008 Nobel peace laureate
Aksobhya, the imperturbable ruler of Eastern Paradise, Abhirati
Agnus Dei (section of Catholic mass)
Arabian
Alexis (name)
Ashoka (304-232 BC), Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty 孔雀王朝[kǒng què wáng cháo], ruled 273-232 BC
to fawn (as flatterer)
Asmara, capital of Eritrea
Albania
Amiens (French town)
Abyssinia, historical name of Ethiopia
arhat (Sanskrit)
Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture (Tibetan: rnga ba bod rigs cha'ng rigs rang skyong khul, formerly in Kham province of Tibet), northwest Sichuan, capital Barkam 馬爾康鎮|马尔康镇[mǎ ěr kāng zhèn]
younger brother
Aleutian Islands (trailing 2250 km southwest of Alaska almost down to Kamtchatka)
Aqsu wilayiti or Aksu prefecture in Xinjiang
Amharic (language)
Alxa League, a prefecture-level subdivision of Inner Mongolia
Arkansas, US state
Ascension Island
Ngari prefecture in Tibet, Tibetan: Mnga' ris sa khul
Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease
auntie, second eldest of sisters in mother's family
Aswan (town in south Egypt)
Alabama, US state
aspartame C14H18N2O (artificial sweetener)
also written 阿諾德·施瓦辛格|阿诺德·施瓦辛格[ā nuò dé · shī wǎ xīn gé]
Arab
Amitabha, Buddha of infinite light
see 阿佛洛狄忒[ā fú luò dí tè]
Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915), German psychiatrist and neuropathologist
Aslan (from the Narnia chronicles)
Amedeo Avogadro (1776-1856), Italian scientist
Aqchi Nahiyisi or Aheqi County in Kizilsu Kirghiz Autonomous Prefecture 克孜勒蘇柯爾克孜自治州|克孜勒苏柯尔克孜自治州[kè zī lè sū kē ěr kè zī zì zhì zhōu], Xinjiang
Alcántara, municipality in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain
apatosaurus
A-dou, nickname of Liu Shan 劉禪|刘禅[liú shàn] (207-271), son of Liu Bei, reigned as Shu Han emperor 233-263
Ainu (ethnic group of Japan's north and Russia's east)
Achilles (or Akhilleus or Achilleus), son of Thetis and Peleus, Greek hero central to the Iliad
amoeba (loanword)
(coll.) country folk
Afar Desert, Southern Ethiopia
Athens, Ohio
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal al-Saud of Saudi Arabia
Acheng district of Harbin 哈爾濱|哈尔滨[hā ěr bīn] in Heilongjiang
Arab Common Market
Miami (Florida)
Amitabha Buddha
dullard
Arun banner or Arongqi county in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔[hū lún bèi ěr], Inner Mongolia
Agadir, city in southwest Morocco
a nook in the mountains
Arthur County, Nebraska
Buddhist teacher (Sanskrit transliteration)
Ah Q, antihero of Lu Xun's influential 1921 novella The True Story of Ah Q 阿Q正傳|阿Q正传[ā Q zhèng zhuàn]
(chemistry) ammonal (loanword)
Forrest Gump
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[yà xī ěr · ā lā fǎ tè]
ammonia solution
Alabama, US state
amen (loanword)
Aztec language (Nahuatl)
(Buddhism) the Avici Hell, the last and most painful of the eight hot hells
Atlas (Titan in Greek mythology)
Arabic numerals 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Argus
aleph (first letter א of Hebrew alphabet)
Amur River (the border between northeast China and Russia)
Hetu Ala (Manchu: Yellow Rock), Nurhaci's capital at the 1619 Battle of Sarhu
Adelaide, capital of South Australia
honey (endearment in addressing a little girl)
Aeneas, hero of Virgil's Aeneid
Ayurveda (ancient Indian system and health care philosophy)
Ares, Greek god of war
Ariane (name)
Apollo (loanword)
Arunachal Pradesh, a state of India in the northeast of the country, occupying an area claimed by China in an ongoing sovereignty dispute
flattering and fawning (idiom)
atropinization
Arcadia (loanword)
Addison's disease
Niels Henrik Abel (1802-1829), Norwegian mathematician
Altai republic in Russian central Asia, capital Gorno-Altaysk
Virgil's Aeneid (epic about the foundation of Rome)
Alofi, capital of Niue
(onom.) a-choo (sound of a sneeze)
Abba (Aramaic word father)
Aramaic (language)
Ciudad Real
Altay prefecture-level city in Xinjiang
amoeba
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Italian Catholic priest in the Dominican Order, philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), American author and biochemist
Arafura Sea
Alian District, a rural district in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
a cappella (loanword)
Dong'e county in Liaocheng 聊城[liáo chéng], Shandong
Aksobhya, the imperturbable ruler of Eastern Paradise, Abhirati
Algonquin (North American people)
azithromycin (macrolide antibiotic)
Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture (Tibetan: rnga ba bod rigs cha'ng rigs rang skyong khul, formerly in Kham province of Tibet), northwest Sichuan, capital Barkam 馬爾康鎮|马尔康镇[mǎ ěr kāng zhèn]
RWTH Aachen University
Altai mountain range in Xinjiang and Siberia
Aalen, town in Germany
Arkansas, US state
General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), US commander in Pacific during WW2, sacked in 1951 by President Truman for exceeding orders during the Korean war
Abby or Abi (name, sometimes short for Abigail)
Buddhist temple (transliteration of Sanskrit \Aranyakah\)
Afghan (language)
Emirates (airline)
Arthur's Town, Cat Island, The Bahamas
Armani (fashion designer)
alpha particle (helium nucleus)
Amun, deity in Egyptian mythology, also spelled Amon, Amoun, Amen, and rarely Imen
Adidas (sportswear company)
Alfa Romeo
Appalachian Mountains in North America
Aishah bint Abi Bakr (c. 614-678), youngest wife of prophet Mohamed 穆罕默德[mù hǎn mò dé]
atropinemimetic drug
Nad Ali, town in Helmand province, Afghanistan
Arabic (language & writing)
Alian District, a rural district in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
amoxicillin (loanword)
younger sister
Apia, capital of the Independent State of Samoa
(math.) non-abelian
Abkhazia, region in Georgia
Atush or Artux city and county in Qizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang 克孜勒蘇柯爾克孜自治州|克孜勒苏柯尔克孜自治州[kè zī lè sū kē ěr kè zī zì zhì zhōu]
Arras, town in northern France
(familiar) elder brother
Atush or Artux city in Qizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang 克孜勒蘇柯爾克孜自治州|克孜勒苏柯尔克孜自治州[kè zī lè sū kē ěr kè zī zì zhì zhōu]
see 阿佛洛狄忒[ā fú luò dí tè]
Achaemenid Empire of Persian (559-330 BC)
Taiwan pr. [ā jiāo]
Acheng district of Harbin 哈爾濱|哈尔滨[hā ěr bīn] in Heilongjiang
Arab League, regional organization of Arab states in Southwest Asia, and North and Northeast Africa, officially called the League of Arab States
Abuja, capital of Nigeria
Abdullah (name)
Appleton (name)
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Allah (Arabic name of God)
Oman
(derog.) an Indian
Hans Asperger (1906-1980), Austrian pediatrician
Abijah (biblical name)
amen (loanword)
Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture (Tibetan: rnga ba bod rigs cha'ng rigs rang skyong khul, formerly in Kham province of Tibet), northwest Sichuan, capital Barkam 馬爾康鎮|马尔康镇[mǎ ěr kāng zhèn]
Abba (Aramaic word father)
Abdulahat Abdurixit (1942-), PRC engineer and politician, chairman of Xinjiang autonomous region 1994-2003, in 2003 vice-chair of 10th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969), German sociologist, philosopher, musicologist, and composer
Arirang, famous Korean song of love and tragic separation, based on folk tale from Georyo dynasty
RWTH Aachen University
Avat nahiyisi (Awat county) in Aksu 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区[ā kè sū dì qū], west Xinjiang
Assen, city in the Netherlands
Arsenal Football Club
see 阿斯佩爾格爾|阿斯佩尔格尔[ā sī pèi ěr gé ěr]
Agincourt (near Arras in north France, scene of a battle in 1415)
The True Story of Ah Q, influential 1921 novella by Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅[lǔ xùn]
Afghanistan
ammonia (loanword)
Adderall (stimulant drug)
Arthur (name)
Alaska, US state
alps (mountain range)
Amminadab (name)
Alan, Allen, Allan, Alain etc (name)
husband's mother
Alstom (company name)
Asturias, northwest Spanish autonomous principality on the bay of Biscay
AstraZeneca (British-Swedish pharmaceutical company)
Algeria
Amsterdam, capital of Netherlands
Afar region of northeast Ethiopia
Alberta province of Canada, capital Edmonton 埃德蒙頓|埃德蒙顿[āi dé méng dùn]
Pakistan-Afghan
to flatter
Adam (name)
Resina Ferulae
A-bian, nickname of Chen Shui-bian 陳水扁|陈水扁[chén shuǐ biǎn]
a Saudi
Aston Martin
Aramaic
Aksai Kazakh autonomous county in Jiuquan 酒泉, Gansu
Altay prefecture in Xinjiang
Prince Ananda, cousin of the Buddha and his closest disciple
Ngawang Choepel (Tibetan, Fulbright scholar)
Acapulco, city in Mexico
Abyssinian (person)
Alaskan malamute
Ali Baba, character from The Arabian Nights
country bumpkin
Al-Amin
Mount Aconcagua, Argentina, the highest point in the Western Hemisphere
polite address for an elderly man, or a woman's father-in-law
Atlantis
Ascension Island
Boaz (son of Salmon and Rahab)
Prince Ananda, cousin of the Buddha and his closest disciple
(dialect) idler
Saudi Arabia
Avila, Spain
elder brother
Aketedu county in Xinjiang (on the border with Kyrgyzstan)
(bird species of China) Altai snowcock (Tetraogallus altaicus)
Astana, capital of Kazakhstan
Altay prefecture-level city in Xinjiang
Algiers, capital of Algeria
Cerro Aconcagua, mountain in the Americas
(coll.) straightforward
Ayshe, Aise or Ayesha (name)
Acheron River in Epirus, northwest Greece
Albanian (person)
Amur Oblast, in far eastern Russia
Atkins (name)
Argentina
Achang also called Ngac'ang or Maingtha (ethnic group)
Minneapolis, a nameplace in the USA, notably in Minnesota
Russian cruiser Aurora, firing the shot signaling the 1917 revolution, a favorite of communist iconography
amebiasis
Altaic language
aciclovir (also spelled acyclovir), antiviral drug
Atush or Artux County in Qizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang 克孜勒蘇柯爾克孜自治州|克孜勒苏柯尔克孜自治州[kè zī lè sū kē ěr kè zī zì zhì zhōu]
Bhumibol Adulyadej (1927-2016), king of Thailand 1946-2016
atropine C17H23NO3, alkaloid drug derived from deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna)
Aksai Kazakh autonomous county in Jiuquan 酒泉, Gansu
Artemis (Greek goddess of the moon)
Almería
Ardabil in Azerbaijan region of Iran
Arakan Mountains (aka Rakhine Mountains), mountain range in western Myanmar
Aqsu Wilayiti or Aksu prefecture in Xinjiang
Azerbaijan (person)
Abag banner or Avga khoshuu in Xilingol League 錫林郭勒盟|锡林郭勒盟[xī lín guō lè méng], Inner Mongolia
Boaz (name)
any Tom, Dick or Harry
Abbasid Empire (750-1258), successor of the Umayyad caliphate
Avarua, capital of the Cook Islands
Nuku'alofa, capital of Tonga
Africa
Effendi, wily and fearless hero of Uighur folk tales
Asura, malevolent spirits in Indian mythology
ayatollah (religious leader in Shia Islam)
Aletsch glacier, Switzerland
the Aswan dam in south Egypt
to pander to sb's whims
(dialect) mother
Charlotte Amalie, capital of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI)
see 阿爾加維|阿尔加维[ā ěr jiā wéi]
Arendal (city in Agder, Norway)
Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (1929-2004), Palestinian leader, popularly known as Yasser Arafat
Vanuatu, country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean
Adelaide, capital of South Australia
Aphrodite, Greek goddess of love
aspartame (loanword)
Aqchi Nahiyisi or Aheqi County in Kizilsu Kirghiz Autonomous Prefecture 克孜勒蘇柯爾克孜自治州|克孜勒苏柯尔克孜自治州[kè zī lè sū kē ěr kè zī zì zhì zhōu], Xinjiang
Alsace, French department
Alishan Township in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县[jiā yì xiàn], within the Alishan Range, south-central Taiwan
Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia
Tuareg (nomadic people of the Sahara)
Acheron River in Epirus, northwest Greece
Alishan mountain range in the central-southern region of Taiwan
Alamo, city in United States
Aba, southeast Nigerian city
arabinose (type of sugar)
hoodlum
alpha (Greek letter Αα)
al-Qaeda
pistachio
Arabian Peninsula
Adelaide, capital of South Australia
Ashina Qutlugh, personal name of 頡跌利施可汗|颉跌利施可汗[jié diē lì shī kè hán]
Adonis, figure in Greek mythology
Avat nahiyisi (Awat county) in Aksu 阿克蘇地區|阿克苏地区[ā kè sū dì qū], west Xinjiang
Archimedes (c. 287-212 BC)
Aztec
Acadia University (Canada)
amebic dysentery
al-Qaeda
Abu Dhabi, capital of United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Dong'e county in Liaocheng 聊城[liáo chéng], Shandong
Alzheimer's disease
granny
Agatha Christie
pistachio nut
Acre, city in Israel, also known as Akko
auntie, eldest of sisters in mother's family
Araba or Álava
University of Alaska
Aachen, city in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Aksu River in Xinjiang
Alxa Left Banner, Mongolian Alshaa Züün khoshuu, in Alxa League 阿拉善盟[ā lā shàn méng], Inner Mongolia (formerly in Gansu 1969-1979)
Ceaseless pain (Sanskrit: Avici), one of the Buddhist hells
Avatar (movie)