Meanings
Noun
1. first Sanskrit alphabet letter
2. Africa
3. Awa (old province of Japan)
Archaic
Prefix
Familiar language
4. prefixed to names to show intimacy
Alt. forms
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (19 in total)
Om; Aun; syllable representing the primordial trinity of Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma; inspiration and expiration; respiration; alpha and omega
Amitabha (Buddha); Amida; ghostleg lottery; ladder lottery; wearing a hat pushed back on one's head
the "a" column of the Japanese syllabary table (a, i, u, e, o)
Examples (3 in total)
Mt. Aso is an active volcano.
Lake Akan is frozen over.
Have you ever climbed Mt. Aso?