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阿非利加

Mandarin · pinyin Ā fēi lì jiā

Africa

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阿: ā · prefix for people's names; used in transliteration
非: fēi · not, negative, non-; oppose; Kangxi radical 175
利: lì · gains, advantage, profit, merit
加: jiā · add to, increase, augment

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1–1–4–1 · A1 fei1 li4 jia1

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

aa3 fei1 lei6 gaa1

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(obsolete) Africa (the continent south of Europe and between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans)
(historical) Africa (a former province of the Roman Empire, containing what is now Tunisia and portions of coastal Algeria and Libya)

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