| 阿鲁巴 |
Ā lǔ bā |
Aruba, island in the Caribbean, a self-governing part of the Netherlands |
| 阿鲁巴 |
ā lǔ bā |
(Tw) (slang) a prank, prevalent in Chinese schools and known as "happy corner" in Hong Kong, in which several people carry a victim with his legs spread open, bringing his groin up against a pole or tree trunk |
| 阿 |
Ā |
abbr. for country names that begin with 阿: Algeria 阿尔及利亚, Afghanistan 阿富汗 etc |
| 阿 |
ā |
prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity / used in transliteration / also pr. [a4] |
| 阿 |
ē |
(literary) to flatter; to curry favor with |
| 鲁 |
Lǔ |
surname Lu / Lu, an ancient state of China 鲁国 / Lu, short name for Shandong 山东 |
| 鲁 |
lǔ |
(bound form) crass / stupid / rude / (used to represent the sounds of "ru", "lu" etc in loanwords) |
| 巴 |
Bā |
Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan) / the east of Sichuan and Chongqing Municipality / surname Ba / (bound form) abbr. for 巴勒斯坦 (Palestine), 巴基斯坦 (Pakistan) or 巴西 (Brazil) |
| 巴 |
bā |
to long for / to wish / to cling to / to stick to / sth that sticks / close to / next to / spread open / informal abbr. for bus 巴士 / bar (unit of pressure) / nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴, tail |