prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity / (bound form) abbreviation for country names beginning with 阿, e.g. 阿富汗[] "Afghanistan"
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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.
(literary) to flatter / to curry favor with
maternal aunt / term of address for a woman of one's mother's generation / childcare worker / nanny / domestic worker
(loanword) amen
(Wu dialect) I / me / my / we / us / our
(loanword) aspirin
alpha (Greek letter Α, α)
hoodlum / hooligan / young rowdy
atropine C17H23NO3, alkaloid drug derived from deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna)
aspirin (loanword) (variant of 阿司匹林[])
flattering and fawning (idiom) / sweet-talking
ayatollah (religious leader in Shia Islam)
(familiar) elder brother
(derog.) an Indian
gambier extract (from Uncaria gambir), used in TCM
(loanword) amen
elder brother
(old) grandfather / polite address for an elderly man, or a woman's father-in-law / (Taiwanese) grandfather
(coll.) soldier boy
to pander to sb's whims
aleph (first letter א of Hebrew alphabet)
Alyxia root and herb (used in TCM)
(loanword) a cappella
(onom.) a-choo (sound of a sneeze)
honey (endearment in addressing a little girl)
country bumpkin / redneck (derog)
(literary) (colloquial term of the Six Dynasties period 六朝[]) this / (abbr. for 阿堵物[]) money
(pharmacology) azithromycin
granny
younger sister
granny / mother-in-law
grandma (paternal) (Tw) / (dialect) mother / nurse / amah / (Manchu) father
(Tw) grandma (also used to refer to or address an elderly woman) (from Taiwanese 阿媽, Tai-lo pr. [-])
homebody / geek / nerd / otaku
husband's mother
(chemistry) (loanword) aniline
albuterol, chemical used in treating asthma
younger brother
arabinose (type of sugar)
atropinization
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