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Although the long あー sound occurs in many words written in katakana, and in
some onomatopoeia and interjections (ザーザー, まあ, etc.) it seems to be very rare
in words written with kanji. The only example that I know is お母さん{おかあさん}. Is
this the only one, or are there other words written with kanji that use this
sound?

Clarification: I know there are many cases where two あ sounds meet across a
morpheme boundary, e.g. 唐揚げ{からあげ}, which is not what I'm interested in. I'd
like a list of kanji which have morpheme-internal readings containing あー.
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kanji pronunciation readings long-vowels
Kanji with long あー sound
If your goal is kanji readings that contain a long あー sound, the quickest way
to accomplish this is to use the [advanced search on
jisho.org](http://jisho.org/docs) (or a similar online dictionary).

拉麺【ラーメン】 will show up using the search query ["*らー*
#words"](http://jisho.org/search/*%E3%82%89%E3%83%BC*%20%23words), which in
query terms means "any word that contains らー in any position".

You can do the same thing with あー、わー、らー、やー、etc. which should yield you all the
results for this you need.

This will not, however, yield all results as some words like 婆さん will not show
up. In order to return all possibilities, you need to include the second あ in
your query.
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First, it'll be very marginal, at least the long あ is impossible to appear in
classic onyomi (漢音, 呉音, 唐宋音) series and "regular" native words. 母さん is like
"mom" as opposed to "mother", and you can see these kind of words rarely get
an established kanji.

Below is the all results I get through prefix search on [a J-J
dictionary](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/) ( _italic_ is my own addition).

  * **[噫【ああ】](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/18/meaning/m0u/)**
  * **[母【かあ】さん](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/34965/meaning/m0u/)** 、[母様【かあさま】](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/34963/meaning/m0u/)、[母【かあ】ちゃん](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/34991/meaning/m0u/) (cf. [嬶【かかあ】](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/37674/meaning/m2u/))
  * **[搾菜【ザーサイ】/榨菜](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/84309/meaning/m0u/)**
  * **[炸鏈【ジャーレン】](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/273331/meaning/m0u/)**
  * **[大四喜【タースーシー】](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/132259/meaning/m0u/)**
  * **[塔子【ターツ】](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/132265/meaning/m0u/)**
  * **[塌菜【ターツァイ】](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/132267/meaning/m0u/)**
  * **[叉焼【チャーシュー】](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/142413/meaning/m0u/)**
  * **[炒飯【チャーハン】](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/142428/meaning/m0u/)** 、[炒麺【チャーメン】](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/142435/meaning/m0u/)
  * **[婆【ばあ】さん](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/172910/meaning/m0u/)** 、[婆【ばあ】や](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/173256/meaning/m0u/)
  * **[八【パー】](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/172847/meaning/m0u/)**
  * **_排骨麺【パーコーメン】_**
  * **[麻雀【マージャン】](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/206621/meaning/m0u/)** 、 _麻婆【マーボー】_ (豆腐 etc.)
  * **[拉麺【ラーメン】/老麺](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/228789/meaning/m0u/)**
  * **[辣油【ラーユ】](http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/228791/meaning/m0u/)**

If you include proper names like
[大同【タートン】](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datong) and
[大慶【ターチン】](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daqing), the number would be nearly
infinitive. There are also Western loanwords like 碼【ヤード】 and 陌【ヘクタール】, but not
quite established.
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