Chinese symbol for “ayatollah”
阿亚图拉
ā yà tú lā
Traditional: 阿亞圖拉
ayatollah (religious leader in Shia Islam)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for ayatollah is 阿亚图拉 (ā yà tú lā), defined as: ayatollah (religious leader in Shia Islam).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 阿亚图拉.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 阿姨 | ā yí | maternal aunt; term of address for a woman of one's mother's generation |
| 阿拉 | ā lā | (Wu dialect) I; me; my; we; us; our |
| 阿门 (阿門) | ā mén | (loanword) amen |
| 阿尔法 (阿爾法) | ā ěr fǎ | alpha (Greek letter Α, α) |
| 阿哥 | ā gē | (familiar) elder brother |
| 阿尔卑斯 (阿爾卑斯) | ā ěr bēi sī | alps (mountain range) |
| 南亚 (南亞) | nán Yà | southern Asia |
| 亚军 (亞軍) | yà jūn | second place (in a sports contest); runner-up |
| 图片 (圖片) | tú piàn | picture; photograph; 张 (zhāng) |
| 卡拉 | kǎ lā | karaoke; (Tw) (of chicken etc) crispy, deep-fried |
See also: Japanese symbol for “ayatollah”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.