阿 · ā
prefix for people's names; used in transliteration
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
prefix for people's names; used in transliteration
- Mandarin
- ā
- Cantonese
- aa3
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 阿 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 아
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+963F
- Radical
- 阜 · 170
- Strokes
- 7 · Unihan
- Residual
- 5
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
7 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 阿
Character connections
Component roles · attributed
- 可 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 可聲
Line 4652 · ⿰阝可 · 可聲 · source reference 5000080
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
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Reverse links to attributed component analyses. Open each character for its role, source and words. Shared components do not establish word ancestry.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- 'a · 烏何 反切 · #738
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 6037 · 'a = 果開一平歌影
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- ā
- kCantonese
- aa3
- kDefinition
- prefix for people's names; used in transliteration
- kTotalStrokes
- 7
- kRSUnicode
- 170.5
- kGradeLevel
- 5
- kTGH
- 2013:913
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- ē,ě,ā,ǎ,à 64119.110
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- ā 0001.010 · a 0002.081 · ē 0282.010
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- ā 001.020 · ē 086.010
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- ā粵aa3 ē粵o1