Kanji1 / 8
阿 kanji
Africa, flatter, fawn upon, corner, nook, recess
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Jinmeiyō (names)
On readings
アオ
Kun readings
おもねるくま
Words with 阿
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —阿呆Popularfool; idiot; simpleton
- —阿弥陀PopularAmitabha (Buddha); Amida; ghostleg lottery; ladder lottery; lottery in which participants trace a line across a lattice pattern to determine the winner; wearing a hat pushed back on one's head
- —阿first Sanskrit alphabet letter; Africa; Awa (old province of Japan); prefixed to names to show intimacy
- —阿吽Om; Aun; syllable representing the primordial trinity of Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma; inspiration and expiration; respiration; alpha and omega
- —阿諛flattery; adulation
- —阿片opium
- —阿比red-throated loon (Gavia stellata)
- —阿媽amah (foreign maid or nursemaid working in east Asia)
- —阿漕greedy; ruthless; cruel; exploitative
- —阿兄elder brother; my dear brother
- —阿字first Sanskrit alphabet letter (in esoteric Buddhism symbolizes the source of all things)
- —阿世timeserving
- —阿翁father-in-law (of a woman); grandfather
- —阿魏asafetida (Ferula assafoetida)
- —阿鼻Avici (lowest level of hell)
- —阿檀umbrella tree (Pandanus odorifer); fragrant screw pine; kewda
- —阿母mother
- —阿父father
- —阿代Ophidion asiro (species of cusk eel)
- —阿形open-mouthed form (statue with open mouth, symbolizing the "a" half of "aum")