阿拉善左旗

Alxa Left Banner, Mongolian Alshaa Züün khoshuu, in Alxa League 阿拉善盟[A1 la1 shan4 Meng2], Inner Mongolia (formerly in Gansu 1969-1979)

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

Allah (Arabic name of God)

(Wu dialect) my / our / I / we / me / us

(Wu dialect) I; me; my; we; us; our

Alxa league, a prefecture-level subdivision of Inner Mongolia

to pull / to play (a bowed instrument) / to drag / to draw / to chat / (coll.) to empty one's bowels

good (virtuous) / benevolent / well-disposed / good at sth / to improve or perfect

left / the Left (politics) / east / unorthodox / queer / wrong / differing / opposite / variant of 佐[zuo3]

flag / variant of 旗[qi2]

banner / flag / (in Qing times) Manchu (cf. 八旗[Ba1 qi2]) / administrative subdivision in inner Mongolia equivalent to 縣|县[xian4] county / CL:面[mian4]