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爷

yé

HSK 3 Character Traditional 爺

What 爷 means

1. grandpa
2. old gentleman

Example sentences

• 老天爷啊！
  Lǎotiānyé ā!
  Oh, my God!
• 你爷爷多大了？
  How old is your grandfather?
• 爷爷买给我的！
  Grandpa bought it for me!
• 我爷爷每天吃药。
  Wǒ yéye měitiān chīyào.
  My grandfather takes medicine every day.
• 我爷爷是个木匠。
  Wǒ yéye shì gè mùjiàng.
  My grandfather is a carpenter.
• 我照顾我的爷爷。
  I take care of my grandfather.

Words starting with 爷

• 爷爷yé ye(colloquial) paternal grandfather; grandpa
• 爷们yé menmenfolk (collective term for men of different generations); husbands and their fathers etc
• 爷俩yé liǎ(colloquial) father and his child
• 爷们儿yé men rerhua variant of 爷们

Words containing 爷

• 老爷lǎo ye(respectful) lord; master; (colloquial) maternal grandfather
• 大爷dà ye(colloquial) father's older brother; uncle; term of respect for older man
• 少爷shào yeson of the boss; young master of the house; your son (honorific)
• 老爷子lǎo yé zimy (your etc) old father; polite appellation for an elderly male
• 老天爷lǎo tiān yéGod; Heavens
• 姥爷lǎo ye(colloquial) mother's father; maternal grandfather
• 王爷wáng yeprince; marquis; nobleman
• 老爷爷lǎo yé ye(colloquial) father's father's father; paternal great-grandfather
• 老大爷lǎo dà yéuncle; grandpa
• 老佛爷Lǎo fó yétitle of respect for the queen mother or the emperor's father…
• 老太爷lǎo tài yéelderly gentleman (respectful); esteemed father
• 太爷tài yé(respectful for) one's grandfather; sb's father; older people
• 师爷shī yé(historical) privately hired legal or administrative advisor to a government official…
• 姑爷gū yeson-in-law (used by wife's family); uncle (husband of father's sister)
• 祖师爷zǔ shī yéfounder (of a craft, religious sect etc)
• 倒爷dǎo yé(colloquial) a profiteer; (business) wheeler-dealer
• 老爷车lǎo ye chēclassic car
• 佛爷Fó yeBuddha (term of respect for Sakyamuni 释迦牟尼; His Holiness…
• 舅爷jiù yéfather's maternal uncle; granduncle
• 伯爷bó yé(dialect) father's older brother; uncle
• 外爷wài ye(dialect) maternal grandfather
• 家爷jiā yé(old) a term servants used to refer to their master
• 官老爷guān lǎo yenickname for official
• 教师爷jiào shī yémaster of martial arts, in former times often employed by a landlord to teach fighting…

Characters that look like 爷

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 每měieach; every
• 母mǔmother; elderly female relative; origin
• 芬fēnperfume; fragrance
• 夺duóto seize; to take away forcibly; to wrest control of
• 秀xiù(bound form) refined; elegant; graceful; beautiful; (bound form) superior; excellent…
• 寿shòulong life; old age; age

Sounds the same

Read yé, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 耶interrogative particle (classical)
• 揶to gesticulate; to play antics
• 铘used in 镆铘
• 捓old variant of 揶
• 擨old variant of 揶