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Aksobhya, the imperturbable ruler of Eastern Paradise, Abhirati
Ar Horqin banner or Aru Khorchin khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia
Arakan Mountains (aka Rakhine Mountains), mountain range in western Myanmar
Ariane (name) / Ariane European space launch vehicle
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-), US actor and politician, governor of California 2003-2011 / also written 阿諾德·施瓦辛格|阿诺德·施瓦辛格
Book of Hosea
Arabian Sea
Alxa Right Banner, Mongolian Alshaa Baruun khoshuu, in Alxa League 阿拉善盟, Inner Mongolia (formerly in Gansu 1969-1979)
United Arab Emirates (abbr. for 阿拉伯聯合酋長國|阿拉伯联合酋长国)
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
(old) grandfather / polite address for an elderly man, or a woman's father-in-law / (Taiwanese) grandfather
Avatar (movie)
Saudi Arabia
Arab / Arabian / Arabian people
to fawn (as flatterer)
the Effendi (Nasreddin), the hero of folk tales of the Muslim world, known for his wisdom and humor
(coll.) soldier boy
(loanword) aspirin
Alabama, US state
Alzheimer's disease
Aladdin, character in one of the tales in the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
Asura, malevolent spirits in Indian mythology
Amhara (province, language and ethnic group of Ethiopia) / Amharic / Ethiopian
Alcatel, old company name
El Alamein, town in Egypt
(name) Ali / Ali (c. 600–661), the fourth caliph of Islam / Alibaba, e-commerce company (abbr. for 阿里巴巴) / see 阿里地區|阿里地区
The True Story of Ah Q, influential 1921 novella by Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅
Amitabha Buddha / the Buddha of the Western paradise / may the lord Buddha preserve us! / merciful Buddha!
(loanword from Persian) imam / ahung
Alai (1959-), ethnic Tibetan Chinese writer, awarded Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2000 for his novel 塵埃落定|尘埃落定 "Red Poppies"
surname Adorno / Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno 狄奧多·阿多諾|狄奥多·阿多诺 (1903-1969), German sociologist, philosopher, musicologist, and composer
Asmara, capital of Eritrea
Gulf of Oman
Ah Q, antihero of Lu Xun's influential 1921 novella "The True Story of Ah Q" Q正傳|阿Q正传 ("Q" here is typically pronounced as [kiu1] or [qiu1])
honey (endearment in addressing a little girl)
surname Armstrong
Abu Dhabi, capital of United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Abba (Aramaic word father) / by ext. God the Father in Christian gospel
(dialect) father
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abbr. for country names that begin with : Algeria 阿爾及利亞|阿尔及利亚, Afghanistan 阿富汗 etc
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prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity / used in transliteration / also pr. [a4]
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(literary) to flatter; to curry favor with
to pander to sb's whims
Oman
Argentina
A-bian, nickname of Chen Shui-bian 陳水扁|陈水扁
Alaska, US state
Forrest Gump
Boaz (name)
aspartame C14H18N2O (artificial sweetener)
Alfa Romeo
Amun, deity in Egyptian mythology, also spelled Amon, Amoun, Amen, and rarely Imen
auntie, third eldest of sisters in mother's family
auntie, eldest of sisters in mother's family
Miami (Florida)
Afghanistan
Abkhazia
younger brother
Alaskan malamute
Arun banner or Arongqi county in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔, Inner Mongolia
Algeria
Alfa Romeo
surname Althusser / Louis Pierre Althusser (1918–1990), Marxist philosopher
Armani (fashion designer)
(loanword) amoxicillin
Buddhist teacher (Sanskrit transliteration) / also written 阿闍梨|阿阇梨
Prince Ananda, cousin of the Buddha and his closest disciple
Ceaseless pain (Sanskrit: Avici), one of the Buddhist hells / fig. hell / hell on earth
Arabian / Arabic / Arab
the Apollo project (1961-1975), the NASA moon landing project
(loanword) opium
Acheron River in Epirus, northwest Greece
Altay, prefecture in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区
Aston Martin
Saudi Arabia (Tw)
Ainu (ethnic group of Japan's north and Russia's east)
husband's mother
(Tw) (loanword) aspirin
(loanword) aspartame
alps (mountain range)
Emirates (airline)
(derog.) an Indian
Ashgabat, capital of Turkmenistan (Tw)
Agatha Christie
Appalachian Mountains in North America
Abuja, capital of Nigeria
Adderall (stimulant drug)
Adelaide, capital of South Australia
Arabic (language)
HSK 7-9
ammonia solution
Aswan (town in south Egypt)
Abby or Abi (name, sometimes short for Abigail)
Almería
Arirang, famous Korean song of love and tragic separation, based on folk tale from Georyo dynasty / Arirang, series of Korean earth observation space satellites
auntie, youngest of sisters in mother's family

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