Dictionary content from CC-CEDICT De keizer is ver weg - boek met wilde avonturen in China


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(coll.) father's father / paternal grandfather / CL: 個|个
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arrogant idler / self-centered show-off
(coll.) father's older brother / uncle / term of respect for older man
prince / marquis / nobleman
son of the boss / young master of the house / your son (honorific)
my (your etc) old father / polite appellation for an elderly male
classic car
(respectful) lord / master / (coll.) maternal grandfather
(coll.) father's father's father / paternal great-grandfather
maternal grandfather (dialectal)
Buddha (term of respect for Sakyamuni 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼) / His Holiness (refers to a Buddhist grandee) / Buddha / God / emperor / in late Qing court, refers exclusively to Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后
(respectful for) one's grandfather / sb's father / older people / the head of the house (used by servants) / a district magistrate
son-in-law (used by wife's family) / uncle (husband of father's sister)
father's maternal uncle / granduncle
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grandpa / old gentleman
topless guy (man who, in a public place, is not wearing a shirt)
(coll.) a profiteer / (business) wheeler-dealer
Zaoshen, the god of the kitchen / also written 灶神
god of wealth / very wealthy man
(coll.) just and incorruptible official
term used in Taiwan for 黑白無常|黑白无常
big talker
(dialect) maternal grandfather
nickname for official
(old) a term servants used to refer to their master
lit. the child sells the father's farm without regret (idiom) / fig. to sell one's inheritance without a second thought for how hard one's forebears worked for it
master of martial arts, in former times often employed by a landlord to teach fighting skills and guard the house / (fig.) sb who arrogantly and condescendingly lectures others
(coll.) pedicab driver
lit. to beg grandpa and call on grandma (idiom) / fig. to go about begging for help
menfolk (collective term for men of different generations) / husbands and their fathers etc
erhua variant of 爺們|爷们
founder (of a craft, religious sect etc)
airline steward
title of respect for the queen mother or the emperor's father / nickname for Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后
uncle / grandpa / CL:
God / Heavens
lit. heaven won't let the sparrows go hungry (idiom) / fig. don't give up hope / if you tough it out, there will be light at the end of the tunnel
elderly gentleman (respectful) / esteemed father
Chinese name for Sichote-Alin mountain range in Russia's Primorsky Krai around Vladivostok
same as 閻羅王|阎罗王 / Yama, King of Hell / translation of Sanskrit: Yama Raja


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