阿斯巴特

aspartame C14H18N2O (artificial sweetener)

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

Slovakia / Slovak / abbr. for 斯洛伐克[Si1 luo4 fa2 ke4]

(phonetic) / this

Ba state during Zhou dynasty (in east of modern Sichuan) / abbr. for east Sichuan or Chongqing / surname Ba / abbr. for Palestine or Palestinian / abbr. for Pakistan

to long for / to wish / to cling to / to stick to / sth that sticks / close to / next to / spread open / informal abbr. for bus 巴士[ba1 shi4] / bar (unit of pressure) / nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴[wei3 ba5], tail

Barth or Barthes (name) / Roland Barthes (1915-1980), French critic and semiotician

special / unique / distinguished / especially / unusual / very / abbr. for 特克斯[te4 ke4 si1], tex