阿 (Ā): meaning and stroke order
阿 (Ā) means abbr. for country names that begin with 阿: Algeria 阿尔及利亚, Afghanistan 阿富汗 etc.
阿
- Simplified
- 阿
- Traditional
- 阿 (same form)
- Pinyin
- Ā · ē
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Stroke order of 阿
阿
- Ā abbr. for country names that begin with 阿[a1]: Algeria 阿爾及利亞|阿尔及利亚[A1 er3 ji2 li4 ya4], Afghanistan 阿富汗[A1 fu4 han4] etc
- ā prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity; used in transliteration
- ē (literary) to flatter; to curry favor with
- 7 strokes
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Meaning of 阿
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Ā
- abbr. for country names that begin with 阿[a1]: Algeria 阿爾及利亞|阿尔及利亚[A1 er3 ji2 li4 ya4], Afghanistan 阿富汗[A1 fu4 han4] etc
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ā
- prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity
- used in transliteration
- also pr. [a4]
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ē
- (literary) to flatter; to curry favor with
Radical and structure
- 阿
- Radical 阜 (Kangxi radical 170) · 8 strokes · 阝 on the left, 可 on the right
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 阿
- 阿婆 ā pó granny; mother-in-law
- 阿姨 ā yí maternal aunt; step-mother
- 阿尔茨海默病 ā ěr cí hǎi mò bìng Alzheimer's disease
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).