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maternal aunt / step-mother / childcare worker / nursemaid / woman of similar age to one's parents (term of address used by child) / CL: 個|个
HSK 4
Arabic (language)
HSK 7-9
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])
Argentina
Apollo (loanword)
Minneapolis, a nameplace in the USA, notably in Minnesota
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  *阿* | 阿* | *阿
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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  *阿* | 阿* | *阿
prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity / used in transliteration / also pr. [a4]
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  *阿* | 阿* | *阿
(literary) to flatter; to curry favor with
Arab / Arabian / Arabian people
Miami (Florida)
Alxa League, a prefecture-level subdivision of Inner Mongolia (abbr. for 阿拉善盟)
Adam (name) / Aden, capital of Yemen
Alaska, US state
Aladdin, character in one of the tales in the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
United Arab Emirates (Tw)
Alzheimer's disease / senile dementia
Arabian / Arabic / Arab
Dong'e county in Liaocheng 聊城, Shandong
Acheng district of Harbin 哈爾濱|哈尔滨 in Heilongjiang
Allah (Arabic name of God)
(Wu dialect) I; me; my; we; us; our
Oman
Abu Dhabi, capital of United Arab Emirates (UAE)
(old) grandfather / polite address for an elderly man, or a woman's father-in-law / (Taiwanese) grandfather
General Lü Meng 呂蒙|吕蒙 of the southern state of Wu (idiom); model of self-improvement by diligent study (from unlettered soldier to top strategist of Wu)
Asura, malevolent spirits in Indian mythology
Assen, city in the Netherlands
alpha (Greek letter Αα)
Assam, India
Aruba, island in the Caribbean, a self-governing part of the Netherlands
(Tw) (slang) a prank, prevalent in Chinese schools and known as "happy corner" in Hong Kong, in which several people carry a victim with his legs spread open, bringing his groin up against a pole or tree trunk
Algeria
(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
Aston Martin
Amitabha Buddha / the Buddha of the Western paradise / may the lord Buddha preserve us! / merciful Buddha!
United Arab Emirates (abbr. for 阿拉伯聯合酋長國|阿拉伯联合酋长国)
Alfa Romeo
aspirin (loanword) (variant of 阿司匹林)
Saudi Arabia (Tw)
aspartame (loanword)
Ali Baba, character from The Arabian Nights
Alibaba, PRC e-commerce company
Arnold (name) / refers to Arnold Schwarzenegger 阿諾·施瓦辛格|阿诺·施瓦辛格
Albania
The True Story of Ah Q, influential 1921 novella by Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅
Arun banner or Arongqi county in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔, Inner Mongolia
Amsterdam, capital of Netherlands
Abu Dhabi, capital of United Arab Emirates (Tw)
Arkansas, US state
Vanuatu, country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean
grandma (paternal) (Tw) / (dialect) mother / nurse / amah / (Manchu) father
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Algiers, capital of Algeria
Aalen, town in Germany
Aketedu county in Xinjiang (on the border with Kyrgyzstan)
granny / mother-in-law
Amis or Pangcah, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
flattering and fawning (idiom) / sweet-talking
younger sister
Alabama, US state
al-Qaeda
(familiar) elder brother
Arsenal Football Club
Abby or Abi (name, sometimes short for Abigail)
Alan, Allen, Allan, Alain etc (name) / A-lan (Chinese female name)
Afghanistan
Azerbaijan
Aba, southeast Nigerian city / Aba, the Lisu 傈僳 word for grandfather
(idiom) (coll.) any Tom, Dick or Harry; just about anyone (used dismissively)
Atlas (Titan in Greek mythology) / Atlas mountains of north Africa
Mount Aso, active volcano in Kyushu, Japan
Alaska, US state
Alxa, league in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region 內蒙古自治區|内蒙古自治区
Aswan (town in south Egypt)
Appleton (name) / Sir Edward Appleton (1892-1965), British physicist, Nobel laureate who discovered the ionosphere
(coll.) soldier boy
Al-Amin
Ar Horqin banner or Aru Khorchin khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia
Arabian Peninsula
(Buddhism) the Avici Hell, the last and most painful of the eight hot hells
General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), US commander in Pacific during WW2, sacked in 1951 by President Truman for exceeding orders during the Korean war
Accra, capital of Ghana
amen (loanword)
hoodlum / hooligan / young rowdy
Ares, Greek god of war / Mars
a nook in the mountains
ammonia (loanword)
Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915), German psychiatrist and neuropathologist
Altai mountain range in Xinjiang and Siberia
Abuja, capital of Nigeria
Apia, capital of the Independent State of Samoa
Nouméa, capital of New Caledonia
Ferula resin (used in TCM) / Resina Ferulae
amebic dysentery
Agatha Christie
Attila (406-453), Hun emperor, known as the scourge of God

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