Chinese Dictionary

Usage of the character 埃

dust
dirt
angstrom
phonetic ai or e

abbr. for Egypt 埃及 ( Aījí)

écu (French coin, discontinued by the end of the 18th century)

ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna or Basque homeland and freedom), Basque armed separatist group

Israel-Egypt

Evan
Avon
Ivan

dust

cyanide (loanword)
same as 氰化

Niue (island)

Egypt

Ed (name - Eduard)

tiny stream of dust
tiny things
negligible

Egypt-Syria

Essen, city in the Ruhr 魯爾區／鲁尔区 ( Lǔ'ěr Qū), Germany

centaury herb with flowers (TCM)
Herba Centaurii altaici cum flore

Lloyd (name)
Lloyd's (London-based insurance group)

Accenture (company)

Edgar (name)

Ebro river (in northeast Spain)

Everton (town in northwest England)
Everton soccer team

James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811-1863), British High Commissioner to China who ordered the looting and destruction of the Old Winter Palace Yuanmingyuan 圓明園／圆明园 in 1860
Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766-1841), who stole the Parthenon Marbles in 1801-1810

Emir (Muslim ruler)
Amir

Evans
Ivins
Ivens

Hector (name)

Yerevan, capital of Armenia 亞美尼亞／亚美尼亚 ( Yàměiníyà)

chickpea

Eugène Edine Pottier (1816-1887), French revolutionary socialist and poet

Ebola (virus)

Pierre (name)

Soviet (council)

Eilat, Israeli port and resort on the Red sea

(name) Edmund; Edmond

Elena (name)

Ellis Island

(bird species of China) Egyptian nightjar (Caprimulgus aegyptius)

Erfurt (German city)

Avebury (stone circle near Stonehenge)

chén'āiluòdìng

lit. the dust has settled (idiom)
fig. to get sorted out
to be finalized

Ediacaran (c. 635-542 million years ago), late phase of pre-Cambrian geological era

Aīdéméngdùn

Edmonton, capital of Alberta, Canada

Book of Exodus
Second Book of Moses

Aīyīnhuòwēn

Eindhoven (city in the Netherlands)

Aī'ěrlǎnggēn

Erlangen (town in Bavaria)

Duvalier (name)

El Paso (Texas)

escudo (Spanish and Portuguese: shield), former currency of Portugal and other countries

Tergüel or Teruel, Spain

Aeneas, hero of Virgil's Aeneid

Aī'ěrduō'ān

Erdogan (name)
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (1954-), Turkish politician, prime minister 2003-2014, president 2014-

Chén'āiluòdìng

"Red Poppies", novel by 阿來／阿来 ( Alái)

Aeolus, Greek God of winds

mǎnshēnchén'āi

dusty

juān'āizhīlì

negligible force (idiom); tiny force

Eisenach (German city)

Anders Jonas Angstrom or Ångström (1814-1874), Swedish physicist

Méngbǐlì'āi

Montpellier (French town)

Aīgé'ěrsōng

Egersund (city in Norway)

riviera (loanword)

Ebro River (in northeast Spain)

Aīsīkùluósī

埃斯库罗斯

[埃斯庫羅斯]

Aeschylus (c. 524 BC -c. 455 BC), Greek tragedian, author of The Persians, Seven against Thebes etc

Aījígǔwùxué

埃及古物学

[埃及古物學]

Egyptology

Aīdíkǎlājì

埃迪卡拉纪

[埃迪卡拉紀]

Ediacaran period (c. 635-542 million years ago), late phase of pre-Cambrian geological era

Kèluó'āixīyà

克罗埃西亚

[克羅埃西亞]

Croatia (Tw)

Aībólābìngdú

埃博拉病毒

[埃博拉病毒]

Ebola virus

Aìmǎniǔ'āi'ěr

艾玛纽埃尔

[艾瑪紐埃爾]

Emmanuel or Emmanuelle (name)

Sūwéi'āi Eguó

苏维埃俄国

[蘇維埃俄國]

Soviet Russia (1917-1991)

Aījiādí Qúndǎo

埃加迪群岛

[埃加迪群島]

Aegadian Islands near Sicily, Italy

Aītènàhuǒshān

埃特纳火山

[埃特納火山]

Mt Etna, volcano in Italy

Yīlì'āisīkù

伊利埃斯库

[伊利埃斯庫]

Iliescu

Aīsītèhāqí

埃斯特哈齐

[埃斯特哈齊]

Esterhazy (name)

Aīsài'ébǐyà

埃塞俄比亚

[埃塞俄比亞]

Ethiopia

Aīniè'āsī Jì

埃涅阿斯纪

[埃涅阿斯紀]

Virgil's Aeneid (epic about the foundation of Rome)

Bǐ'āizībābó

比埃兹巴伯

[比埃茲巴伯]

Beelzebub

Aī'ěrnándésī

埃尔南德斯

[埃爾南德斯]

Hernández (name)

Aīfēi'ěr Tiětǎ

埃菲尔铁塔

[埃菲爾鐵塔]

Eiffel Tower

Aīdéjiā· Sīnuò

埃德加·斯诺

[埃德加·斯諾]

Edgar Snow (1905-1972), American journalist, reported from China 1928-1941, author of Red Star Over China

Aīlóng· Mǎsīkè

埃隆·马斯克

[埃隆·馬斯克]

Elon Musk (1971-), founder and CEO of SpaceX, co-founder and CEO of Tesla Motors

Aīdéméng· Bókè

埃德蒙·伯克

[埃德蒙·伯克]

Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Irish philosopher and political scientist, member of British Parliament

Aīlātuōsènísī

埃拉托塞尼斯

[埃拉托塞尼斯]

Eratosthenes of Cyrene (c. 276-c. 195 BC), ancient Greek mathematician and inventor

Aī'ěrlǎnggēngānglǐng

埃尔朗根纲领

[埃爾朗根綱領]

Felix Klein's Erlangen program (1872) on geometry and group theory

Aīsài'ébǐyàjiè

埃塞俄比亚界

[埃塞俄比亞界]

Ethiopian Zone, aka Afrotropical realm

Aīsāi'ébǐyàyǔ

埃塞俄比亚语

[埃塞俄比亞語]

Ethiopic (language)

Aījígǔwùxuézhě

埃及古物学者

[埃及古物學者]

Egyptologist

Aī'ěrjīndàlǐshí

埃尔金大理石

[埃爾金大理石]

the Elgin Marbles, the Parthenon marbles stolen in 1801-1810 by Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin

Aīdé· Mǐlìbāndé

埃德·米利班德

[埃德·米利班德]

Ed Milliband, UK labor politician, opposition leader from 2010

Aīkètuō· Bóliáozī

埃克托·柏辽兹

[埃克托·柏遼茲]

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), French romantic composer, author of Symphonie Fantastique

Sūlián Zuìgāo Sūwéi'āi

苏联最高苏维埃

[蘇聯最高蘇維埃]

Supreme Soviet

Aīdéjiā· Aìlún· Pō

埃德加·爱伦·坡

[埃德加·愛倫·坡]

Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849), American poet and novelist

Zhōnghuá Sūwéi'āi Gònghéguó

中华苏维埃共和国

[中華蘇維埃共和國]

Chinese Soviet Republic (1931-1937)

Shèngpí'āi'ěrhé Mìkèlóng

圣皮埃尔和密克隆

[聖皮埃爾和密克隆]

Saint-Pierre and Miquelon

Aī'ěrwéisī· Pǔléisīlì

埃尔维斯·普雷斯利

[埃爾維斯·普雷斯利]

Elvis Presley (1935-1977), US pop singer and film star

Aīwénhépàn Sītèlātèfú

埃文河畔斯特拉特福

[埃文河畔斯特拉特福]

Stratford-upon-Avon

Lùyì· Pí'āi'ěr· Aěrdōusāi

路易·皮埃尔·阿尔都塞

[路易·皮埃爾·阿爾都塞]

Louis Pierre Althusser (1918-1990), Marxist philosopher

Sūwéi'āi Shèhuìzhǔyì Gònghéguó Liánméng

苏维埃社会主义共和国联盟

[蘇維埃社會主義共和國聯盟]

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), 1922-1991
abbr. to 蘇聯／苏联 ( Sūlián) Soviet Union