阿伊努

Ainu (ethnic group of Japan's north and Russia's east)

abbr. for Afghanistan 阿富汗[A1 fu4 han4]

prefix used before monosyllabic names, kinship terms etc to indicate familiarity / used in transliteration / also pr. [a4]

flatter

(literary) to flatter; to curry favor with

surname Yi / abbr. for 伊拉克[Yi1 la1 ke4], Iraq / abbr. for 伊朗[Yi1 lang3], Iran

(old) third person singular pronoun ("he" or "she") / second person singular pronoun ("you") / (May 4th period) third person singular feminine pronoun ("she") / (Classical Chinese) introductory particle with no specific meaning / that (preceding a noun)

to exert / to strive