阿 ā, ē — prefix (intimate, before kinship terms); a-; Ah
阿
Level 1 · Common HSK 3 #913
ā a1
ē e1
Basic definition
noun
- hill; mountain; mound; foothill; knoll; hillock; nook in the hills; mountain bend; vale e.g 山阿
Detailed explanation
noun
- (形声。从阜，可声。本义:大的山陵，大的土山)
- big mound e.g 阿丘
- mountain e.g 阿阜 · 崇阿
- hillside
- fine silks e.g 阿锡
- corner
- waterside
- nearby;near
- Dong'e county
verb
- pander to;play up to e.g 阿奉 · 阿世 · 阿邑 · 阿意
- be unfairly partial to
- exerete
Related words
- 阿富汗 Afghanistan/Afghan
- 阿姨 auntie; aunt; nurse; nanny; maternal aunt; auntie (familiar); ayi; nursemaid
- 阿妈 mother/nurse/amah/serving woman
- 阿爸 father; dad (term used by ethnic minorities and in some regions)
- 阿弥陀佛 Amitabha Buddha; thank goodness
- 阿Q Ah Q (protagonist of Lu Xun's novella; a byword for self-deluding rationalizatio
- 阿胶 ejiao; donkey-hide gelatin
- 阿谀 to flatter; to fawn; to wheedle
- 阿拉伯语 Arabic language
- 刚正不阿 upright and uncorrupted; principled and unbending
- 阿訇 an ahung (Islamic cleric)
- 刚直不阿 upright and uncompromising; refusing to curry favor
- 阿拉伯数字 Arabic numerals (0–9)
- 阿谀奉承 to flatter and fawn on; to truckle to
- 阿司匹林 aspirin
- 阿斗 A-dou, nickname of Liu Chan 刘禅 (207-271), son of Liu Bei, reigned as Shu Han emp
- 阿门 amen
- 阿飞 hoodlum/hooligan/young rowdy
- 阿昌族 the Achang people (a Yunnan minority)
- 阿谀逢迎 to flatter and fawn on; to truckle to