grandpa / old gentleman

= + : Maud Younger (y) hands her new baby seal (卩) over to her grandpa (爷) and his boyfriend, Father Time (父). She gives them the baby seal to look over it for the weekend in the elevator's kitchen (e2) and then quickly runs away to party all night long.

爷 character breakdown

"seal" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 26)

= + : The meaning is seal as in insignia, but instead I'm going to represent it as baby seal (the animal) in other characters. Joan of Arc (ji) is using a plow (㇆) to dig up baby seals (卩) in the elevator's kitchen (e2). As soon as they jump out of the ground she clubs them with a dinosaur bone (丨).
father

= + : Father Time. Father Time is trying to cut an eight ball with pliers. Besides, he looks like he has just bitten in a lemon.

Characters with 爷 as component

爷 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 爷

son of the boss / young master of the house / your son (honorific)
(coll.) father's older brother / uncle / term of respect for older man
arrogant idler / self-centered show-off
maternal grandfather (dialectal)
son-in-law (used by wife's family) / uncle (husband of father's sister)
Buddha (term of respect for Sakyamuni 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼[Shi4 jia1 mou2 ni2]) / His Holiness (refers to a Buddhist grandee) / Buddha / God / emperor / in late Qing court, refers exclusively to Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后[Ci2 xi3 tai4 hou4]
(coll.) a profiteer / (business) wheeler-dealer
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
Zaoshen, the god of the kitchen / also written 灶神
erhua variant of 爺們|爷们[ye2 men5]
term used in Taiwan for 黑白無常|黑白无常[Hei1 Bai2 Wu2 chang2]
(dialect) maternal grandfather
see 老天爺|老天爷[lao3 tian1 ye2]
(respectful for) one's grandfather / sb's father / older people / the head of the house (used by servants) / a district magistrate
nickname for official
(old) a term servants used to refer to their master

Sentences with 爷

nǐ
shì
shén
me
do̅ng
西
xi
 
 
gǎn
lái
guǎn
nǐ
su̅n
yé
ye