阿 (aa3 o1 aa2 aa1 | a3 a5 a2 e1) : name or term of address prefix

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阿

aa3 o1 aa2 aa1

a3 a5 a2 e1

(1) [1] [v] favour; toady; assent; pander to; play up to [2] [v] rely on [3] [n] riverbank [4] [n] corner; edge [5] [n] pillar [6] slender and beautiful [7] [v] discharge (night soil, urine, etc.) [8] a Chinese family name
(2) [1] a prefix to a name or term of address [2] used in transliteration [3] [Wu] [Min] [Cantonese] [Hakka] a prefix to a name or term of address | (sometimes written as 亞)

Stroke count: 8

Level: 2

Radical: (#170)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

阿

This character was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 8th Jul 2009 20:44

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阿伯 aa3 baak3 = uncle (father's older brother); polite way of addressing an older person 粵

阿叔 aa3 suk1 = uncle (father's younger brother) 粵

阿婆 aa3 po4 = grandmother (maternal); polite way of addressing an old lady 粵

阿嬸 aa3 sam2 = aunt (wife of father's younger brother); polite way of addressing wife of 阿叔 (uncle) 粵

阿嫂 aa3 sou2 = sister-in-law (brother's wife); polite way of addressing a friend's wife 粵

阿哥 aa3 go1 a1 ge1 = older brother 粵

阿妹 aa3 mui6*2; aa3 mui6*1 a1 mei4 = younger sister; an unmarried girl

阿爺 aa3 je4 = grandfather (paternal) 粵

阿姨 aa3 ji4*1 a1 yi2 = aunt (mother's younger sister); honorary auntie

阿嫲 aa3 maa4 = grandmother (paternal) 粵
See all 176 compounds (CantoDict reports 182 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing all 10 examples containing 阿

阿爸阿媽日日都去晨運。粵
Papa and mama go exercising every morning.

阿媽今日煲咗湯。粵
Mum has cooked soup today.

我屋企有阿爸、阿媽、阿哥同我。粵
My home has father, mother, brother and me.

阿媽今晚唔煮飯，要食自己。粵
Mum is not going to cook tongiht, so we/I have to have dinner on our/my own.
[Usually mother cooks at home every night. If she does not cook, it implies that she is out at night, so the entire family has to think about the dinner stuff.]

阿媽去咗超級市場買嘢。粵
Mum has gone shopping in a supermarket.

唔知阿蓮要去唔去。粵
Not sure whether Ah Lin wants to go or not.

阿媽同我女朋友傾到好投契粵
My mom and girlfriend are having such a kindred conversation.

阿媽鬧人中氣十足。粵
Mum can scold people very loudly

如果阿明真係一個識飛嘅超人就好喇⋯⋯噉佢就唔會喺條街度踩咗啲米田共返嚟屋企，重要印到成條走廊嘅地板都係！抹死人咩⋯⋯ 粵
It'd be nice if Ah Ming were a superhero that knew how to fly … Then he wouldn't have brought home the poop that he stepped on in the street and printed it all over the floorboards in the hallway! Cleaning it up will be the death of me …

阿妹的歌首首都膾炙人口國
A-mei's songs are all widely known.

Legend
國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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Decimal representation of this word: 阿
Unicode code for this character: U+963f (off-site link)

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