爺

See also 爷

Translingual

simpl.		爷
trad.		爺

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 父 (“fathers”) + phonetic 耶

Han character

爺 (radical 88 父+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 金大尸十中 (CKSJL), four-corner 8012₇)

1. father, grandfather

Coordinate terms

• 婆

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

爺 (simplified 爷, Yale ye4)

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Japanese

Kanji

爺

Readings

• On: や (ya)
• Kun: ちち (chichi), じじ (jiji), おやじ (oyaji)

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Korean

Hanja

爺
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 야 (revised: ya, McCune-Reischauer: ya, Yale: ya)

• Name (hangeul): 아비()

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Mandarin

Hanzi

爺 (simplified 爷, pinyin yé (ye2), Wade-Giles yeh²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

爺 (gia)

1. Hán form of gia