| 阿 | ā | prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity; used in transliteration; also pr. ; abbr. for Afghanistan 阿富汗 |
| 阿 | ē | flatter |
| 阿富汗 | Ā fù hàn | Afghanistan; Afghan |
| 阿尔及利亚 | Ā ěr jí lì yà | Algeria |
| 阿尔巴尼亚 | Ā ěr bā ní yà | Albania |
| 阿根廷 | Ā gēn tíng | Argentina |
| 沙特阿拉伯 | Shā tè Ā lā bó | Saudi Arabia |
| 阿爸 | Ā bà | Abba (Aramaic word father); by ext. God the Father in Christian gospel |
| 阿姨 | ā yí | maternal aunt; step-mother; childcare worker; nursemaid; woman of similar age to one's parents (term of address used by child); CL:个 |
| 阿里 | Ā lǐ | Ali (proper name); Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib (c. 600-661), cousin, aid and son-in-law of the Prophet Mohammed 穆罕默德, the fourth Caliph 哈里发 of Islam, reigned 656-661, and the first Imam 伊玛目 of Shia Islam; Ngari prefecture in Tibet, Tibetan: Mnga' ris |
| 阿尔及尔 | Ā ěr jí ěr | Algiers, capital of Algeria |
| 阿明 | Ā míng | Al-Amin |
| 阿曼 | Ā màn | Oman |
| 阿拉伯人 | Ā lā bó rén | Arab; Arabian; Arabian people |
| 阿拉法特 | Ā lā fǎ tè | Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (1929-2004), Palestinian leader, popularly known as Yasser Arafat 亚西尔・阿拉法特[Ya4 xi1 er3 · A1 la1 fa3 te4] |
| 阿拉伯半岛 | Ā lā bó bàn dǎo | Arabian Peninsula |
| 阿尔泰山 | Ā ěr tài shān | Altai mountain range in Xinjiang and Siberia |
| 阿布扎比 | Ā bù Zā bǐ | Abu Dhabi, capital of United Arab Emirates (UAE) |
| 阿克苏 | Ā kè sū | Aqsu wilayiti or Aksu prefecture in Xinjiang; Aqsu shehiri or Aksu city |
| 阿拉伯语 | ā lā bó yǔ | Arabic (language) |
| 三阿姨 | sān ā yí | auntie, third eldest of sisters in mother's family |
| 二阿姨 | èr ā yí | auntie, second eldest of sisters in mother's family |
| 亚西尔・阿拉法特 | Yà xī ěr · Ā lā fǎ tè | Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini (1929-2004), Palestinian leader, popularly known as Yasser Arafat |
| 何西阿书 | hé xī ā shū | Book of Hosea |
| 刚正不阿 | gāng zhèng bù ē | upright and plainspoken |
| 吴下阿蒙 | Wú xià ā Méng | General Lü Meng 吕蒙 of the southern state of Wu (idiom); model of self-improvement by diligent study (from unlettered soldier to top strategist of Wu) |
| 图阿雷格 | Tú ā léi gé | Tuareg (nomadic people of the Sahara) |
| 埃涅阿斯 | Āi niè ā sī | Aeneas, hero of Virgil's Aeneid |
| 埃涅阿斯纪 | Āi niè ā sī jì | Virgil's Aeneid (epic about the foundation of Rome) |
| 夏洛特阿马利亚 | Xià luò tè Ā mǎ lì yà | Charlotte Amalie, capital of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI) |
| 大西庇阿 | Dà xī bì ā | Scipio Africanus (235-183 BC), Roman general and statesman |
| 大阿姨 | dà ā yí | auntie, eldest of sisters in mother's family |
| 守正不阿 | shǒu zhèng bù ē | to be strictly just and impartial |
| 小阿姨 | xiǎo ā yí | auntie, youngest of sisters in mother's family |
| 巴阿 | Bā Ā | Pakistan-Afghan |
| 托马斯・阿奎纳 | Tuō mǎ sī · Ā kuí nà | Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Italian Catholic priest in the Dominican Order, philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition |
| 拟阿拖品药物 | nǐ ā tuō pǐn yào wù | atropinemimetic drug |
| 明尼阿波利斯 | Míng ní ā bō lì sī | Minneapolis, a nameplace in the USA, notably in Minnesota |
| 普密蓬・阿杜德 | Pǔ mì péng · Ā dù dé | Bhumibol Adulyadej (1927-), King of Thailand (reigned 1945-) |
| 普密蓬阿杜德 | pǔ mì péng ā dù dé | Bhumibol Adulyadej (1927-), King of Thailand (reigned 1945-) |
| 东方阿閦佛 | Dōng fāng Ā chù fó | Aksobhya, the imperturbable ruler of Eastern Paradise, Abhirati |
| 东阿 | Dōng ē | Dong'e county in Liaocheng 聊城, Shandong |
| 东阿县 | Dōng ē xiàn | Dong'e county in Liaocheng 聊城, Shandong |
| 沙乌地阿拉伯 | Shā wū dì Ā lā bó | Saudi Arabia |
| 沙特阿拉伯人 | Shā tè Ā lā bó rén | a Saudi; Saudi Arabian person |
| 波阿斯 | Bō ā sī | Boaz (son of Salmon and Rahab) |
| 波阿次 | Bō ā cì | Boaz (name) |
| 狄奥多・阿多诺 | Dí ào duō · Ā duō nuò | Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969), German sociologist, philosopher, musicologist, and composer |
| 瓦努阿图 | Wǎ nǔ ā tú | Vanuatu in south pacific (formerly New Hebrides) |
| 纳德阿里 | Nà dé Ā lǐ | Nad Ali, town in Helmand province, Afghanistan |
