爺 character breakdown

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interrogative particle (classical)
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ye = y + e5
final particle indicating enthusiasm etc
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Characters with 爺 as component

爺 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 爺

son of the boss / young master of the house / your son (honorific)
arrogant idler / self-centered show-off
(coll.) father's older brother / uncle / term of respect for older man
menfolk (collective term for men of different generations) / husbands and their fathers etc
maternal grandfather (dialectal)
son-in-law (used by wife's family) / uncle (husband of father's sister)
(coll.) a profiteer / (business) wheeler-dealer
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]
term used in Taiwan for 黑白無常|黑白无常[Hei1 Bai2 Wu2 chang2]
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
Zaoshen, the god of the kitchen / also written 灶神
(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

Sentences with 爺

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