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姥爷

lǎo ye

HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 姥爺

姥爷 (lǎo ye) means "maternal grandfather (dialectal)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 姥爷 means

1. colloquialmother's father; maternal grandfather

The characters in 姥爷

• 姥lǎograndma (maternal)
• 爷yégrandpa; old gentleman

Sounds the same

Read lǎo ye, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 老爷(respectful) lord; master; (colloquial) maternal grandfather

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