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Ah.

A prefix of Chinese origin used with a shortened form of given names to express familiarity, roughly equivalent to a nickname.

2 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

prefix
  1. A prefix of Chinese origin used with a shortened form of given names to express familiarity, roughly equivalent to a nickname.

    morpheme
    Ah Ming moved out of Chinatown last year.
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Chinese 阿. Compare Dutch -A-.

pron
  1. Alternative letter-case form of ah (“I”).

    alt-of
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.