[go: nahoru, domu]

Chinese

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phonetic; (final part.); (interj.)
phonetic; (final part.); (interj.); flatter; an initial particle; prefix to names of people
 
grandpa; etc.; old gentleman
trad. (阿爺)
simp. (阿爷)
alternative forms 亞爺亚爷 Cantonese

Pronunciation

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Noun

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阿爺

  1. (archaic or Southwestern Mandarin, dialectal Cantonese, dialectal Hakka, dialectal Wu) father; dad
  2. (Central Plains, Lanyin and Southwestern Mandarin, Cantonese, Zhejiang Wu) paternal grandfather
  3. (dialectal Cantonese, dialectal Eastern Min, Pinghua, Puxian Min, dialectal Wu) uncle (father's elder brother)
  4. (Lanyin Mandarin) maternal grandfather
  5. (Taishanese, obsolete) father-in-law (wife's father)
  6. (Cantonese, figurative) the public; the country
  7. (Hong Kong Cantonese, figurative, humorous) the central government of the People's Republic of China

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