阿
āē HSK4

name prefix

阿 ā frequency
[transliteration] proper noun
Used in the transliteration of foreign names; also used as an abbreviation for countries like 阿富汗 ā​fù​hàn or 阿尔及利亚 ā'ěr​jí​lì​yà.
[prefix] interjection
Used before monosyllabic names, family names, birth-order numbers, or kinship terms to express familiarity or intimacy.
阿 ē
to flatter
(literary) to flatter; to curry favor with or to be unfairly partial to someone.
(bound form) bend
(bound form) a bend in a mountain or a river; a curved place.
(bound form) Dong'e
(bound form) refers to 东阿 dōng'ē County in Shandong Province, especially when referring to donkey-hide gelatin
surname
a Chinese surname
(bound form) eaves
a roof or the eaves of a house
(literary) mound
a hill or a large mound

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Frequency
Character
Written text
471st most common 450.4 per million
Movie subtitles
447th most common 330.7 per million appears in 48% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
90.3 per million appears in 15% of films
Written text
238.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+963F

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)