Save Gender Feminine Usage Korean Scripts 아라(Korean Hangul) Pronounced Pron. AH-RAH [key] Meaning & History From Korean 알아 "to know". Using hanja it can mean "be beautiful; good" from Sino-Korean 娥 (a) or "elegant, graceful, refined" (雅, a) and "net for catching birds" (羅, ra). A famous bearer is South Korean actress Go Ara (1990-).