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爺
爺
See also: 爷
Translingual
Han character
爺 (radical 88 父+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 金大尸十中 (CKSJL), four-corner 80127, composition ⿱父耶)
References
- KangXi: page 690, character 11
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19734
- Dae Jaweon: page 1103, character 10
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2040, character 7
- Unihan data for U+723A
Chinese
| trad. | 爺 | |
|---|---|---|
| simp. | 爷 | |
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (耶) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 耶 | *laː |
| 椰 | *laː |
| 爺 | *laː |
| 瑘 | *laː |
| 鎁 | *laː |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *laː) : semantic 父 (“fathers”) + phonetic 耶 (OC *laː).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄧㄝˊ
- Wade-Giles: yeh2
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ye
- IPA (key): /i̯ɛ³⁵/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: je4
- Yale: yèh
- Cantonese Pinyin: je4
- IPA (key): /jɛː²¹/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yà
- Hakka Romanization System: iaˇ
- Hagfa Pinyim: ya2
- IPA: /i̯a¹¹/
- (Southern Sixian, incl. Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: yà
- Hakka Romanization System: (r)iaˇ
- Hagfa Pinyim: ya2
- IPA: /(j)i̯a¹¹/
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iâ
- Tâi-lô: iâ
- Phofsit Daibuun: iaa
- IPA (Xiamen): /ia²⁴/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /ia²⁴/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /ia¹³/
- IPA (Taipei): /ia²⁴/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /ia²³/
- (Hokkien)
Definitions
爺
- father
- grandfather
- (polite) grandpa (term of address for an elderly man)
- (historical, honorific) sir
- (honorific) term of address for gods and the Buddha
Coordinate terms
- 婆 (pó)
Compounds
Derived terms from 爺
Japanese
Kanji
爺
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