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Derived from the Chinese character 阿 (ā, à) referred to a prefix used in front of the last character of someone’s given name to express familiarity or friendliness (traditionally used in rural or southern Chinese dialects). It is also an Hokkien honorific prefix to rank seniority for kinship terms.

Variant of Ah.

This was the name of an Early Dynastic pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.