Characters in this word

5
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prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity, used in transliteration, (bound form) Afghanistan (abbr. for 阿富汗[A1 fu4 han4]), (bound form) Albania (abbr. for 阿爾巴尼亞|阿尔巴尼亚[A1 er3 ba1 ni2 ya4]), (bound form) Algeria (abbr. for 阿爾及利亞|阿尔及利亚[A1 er3 ji2 li4 ya4]), (bound form) Argentina (abbr. for 阿根廷[A1 gen1 ting2]), also pr. [a4]

Pinyin
ā
Strokes
7
Frequency
1011 of 2500
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(bound form) family name; surname (as in 王氏[Wang2 shi4] "the Wang clan"), (bound form) maiden name; née (as in 李王氏[Li3 Wang2 shi4] "Mrs. Li, née Wang"), (bound form) honorific suffix added to the surname or full name of a notable person, esp. historical or scholarly figures

Pinyin
shì
Strokes
4
Frequency
27823 of 2500