阿
āāē HSK4

name prefix

阿 ā frequency
prefix proper name
prefix used before monosyllabic names or kinship terms to indicate familiarity

阿强，快过来吃饭！

ā jiàng, kuài guò​lái chī​fàn!

A-Qiang, come and eat!

abbr. abbreviation
abbreviation for country names beginning with 阿 ā, such as Algeria or Afghanistan

中阿关系正在稳步发展。

Zhōng ā guān​xi zhèng​zài wěn​bù fā​zhǎn.

China-Arab relations are developing steadily.

transliteration pronoun
character used in the phonetic transliteration of foreign names and places

他的一个好朋友就出生在阿尔巴尼亚。

tā de yī gè hǎo péng​you jiù chū​shēng zài ā'ěr​bā​ní​yà.

One of his good friends was born in Albania.

阿 ē
flatter idiom
to flatter or curry favor with (literary)

他不愿阿其所好。

tā bù yuàn ē​qí​suǒ​hào.

He is unwilling to curry favor with others.

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)