阿尔坎塔拉

Alcántara, municipality in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain / Alcantara, Brazil space launch site

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

variant of 爾|尔[er3]

thus / so / like that / you / thou

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

pagoda / tower / minaret / stupa (abbr. loanword from Sanskrit tapo) / CL:座[zuo4]

old variant of 塔[ta3]

pit / threshold / one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing water / ☵

old variant of 坎[kan3] / pit / hole