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HSK
(coll.) paternal grandfather; grandpa
HSK 1
(coll.) father's older brother / uncle / term of respect for older man
HSK 4
maternal grandfather (dialectal)
HSK 7-9
(respectful) lord / master / (coll.) maternal grandfather
(dialect) maternal grandfather
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *爺* | 爺* | *爺
grandpa / old gentleman
arrogant idler / self-centered show-off
god of wealth / very wealthy man
founder (of a craft, religious sect etc)
God / Heavens
son-in-law (used by wife's family) / uncle (husband of father's sister)
elderly gentleman (respectful) / esteemed father
father's maternal uncle / granduncle
(respectful for) one's grandfather / sb's father / older people / the head of the house (used by servants) / a district magistrate
uncle / grandpa / CL:
(coll.) a profiteer / (business) wheeler-dealer
my lord (respectful form of address for an official or a magistrate in imperial China)
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
term used in Taiwan for 黑白無常|黑白无常
title of respect for the queen mother or the emperor's father / nickname for Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后
(coll.) father's father's father / paternal great-grandfather
nickname for official
big talker
airline steward
topless guy (man who, in a public place, is not wearing a shirt)
prince / marquis / nobleman
(old) a term servants used to refer to their master
son of the boss / young master of the house / your son (honorific)
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
Zaoshen, the god of the kitchen / also written 灶神
(Buddhism) Yama, the King of Hell


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