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老爷

lǎo ye

2-character word Traditional 老爺

What 老爷 means

1. (respectful) lord
2. master
3. colloquialmaternal grandfather

The characters in 老爷

• 老lǎoprefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of…
• 爷yégrandpa; old gentleman

Example sentences

• 那位老爷爷死于癌症。
  The old man died of cancer.

Words starting with 老爷

• 老爷子lǎo yé zimy (your etc) old father; polite appellation for an elderly male
• 老爷爷lǎo yé ye(colloquial) father's father's father; paternal great-grandfather
• 老爷车lǎo ye chēclassic car
• 老爷岭Lǎo ye lǐngChinese name for Sichote-Alin mountain range in Russia's Primorsky Krai around Vladivostok

Words containing 老爷

• 官老爷guān lǎo yenickname for official
• 青天大老爷qīng tiān dà lǎo yemy lord (respectful form of address for an official or a magistrate in imperial China)
• 天老爷tiān lǎo yesee 老天爷

Sounds the same

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

• 姥爷(colloquial) mother's father; maternal grandfather