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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
surname Arroyo
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])
The True Story of Ah Q, influential 1921 novella by Lu Xun 魯迅|鲁迅
Epang Palace, palace complex in western Xi'an built by Qin Shihuang 秦始皇 / also pr. [E1fang2 Gong1]
Ferula resin (used in TCM) / Resina Ferulae
Adelaide, capital of South Australia / also written 阿德萊德|阿德莱德
Allah (Arabic name of God)
(Wu dialect) I; me; my; we; us; our
Alian District, a rural district in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Alicante
Archimedes (c. 287-212 BC)
Apollo (loanword)
El Alamein, town in Egypt
RWTH Aachen University
amoeba / ameba
Arab / Arabian / Arabian people
Arunachal Pradesh, a state of India in the northeast of the country, occupying an area claimed by China in an ongoing sovereignty dispute
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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
Alxa League, a prefecture-level subdivision of Inner Mongolia (abbr. for 阿拉善盟)
Alaska, US state
Buddhist teacher (Sanskrit transliteration) / also written 阿闍黎|阿阇黎
Aladdin, character in one of the tales in the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights
Agadir, city in southwest Morocco
United Arab Emirates (Tw)
Argentina
Arabian / Arabic / Arab
Acheng district of Harbin 哈爾濱|哈尔滨 in Heilongjiang
(loanword from Persian) imam / ahung
Oman
(place name) Arcadia
Abu Dhabi, capital of United Arab Emirates (UAE)
alpha (Greek letter Α, α)
Assam, India
Asura, malevolent spirits in Indian mythology
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)
Aslan (from the Narnia chronicles)
aciclovir (also spelled acyclovir), antiviral drug
(loanword) opium
(loanword) aspartame
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
Amhara (province, language and ethnic group of Ethiopia) / Amharic / Ethiopian
Acapulco, city in Mexico
Amsterdam, capital of Netherlands
Arkansas, US state
grandma (paternal) (Tw) / (dialect) mother / nurse / amah / (Manchu) father
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Algiers, capital of Algeria
Aalen, town in Germany
granny / mother-in-law
Amis or Pangcah, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
flattering and fawning (idiom) / sweet-talking
Ascension Island
younger sister
variant of 亞美尼亞|亚美尼亚, Armenia
Adam (name) / Aden, capital of Yemen
Alabama, US state
(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, a Titan in Greek mythology / Atlas Mountains in North Africa
Mount Aso, active volcano in Kyushu, Japan
Alaska, US state
Abu Dhabi, capital of United Arab Emirates (Tw)
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
Ar Horqin banner or Aru Khorchin khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia
Arabian Peninsula
Accra, capital of Ghana
(loanword) amen
hoodlum / hooligan / young rowdy
Ares, Greek god of war / Mars
(loanword) ammonia
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

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