Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- yé
English
- father, grandfather
- grandpa
- grandfather (only for father's father)
- old gentleman
- grandfather; father's father
- father
- informal honourific title for a man; or used to form a nickname for a respected male friend
粵語
- 阿爸嘅阿爸
- 阿爸
- 對男人嘅尊稱
Variants
Words containing 爺
- 爺爺je4 je2
(coll.) paternal grandfather; grandpa
- 爺爺je4 je2
(coll.) paternal grandfather; grandpa
- 老爺lou5 je4
(respectful) lord
- 師爺si1 je4
(historical) privately hired legal or administrative advisor to a government official
- 伯爺baak3 je4
(dialect) father's older brother; uncle
- 大爺daai6 je4
arrogant idler
- 少爺siu3 je4
son of the boss
- 老爺車lou5 je4 ce1
classic car
- 亞爺aa3 je4
Grandpa
- 太爺taai3 je4
(respectful for) one's grandfather
- 阿爺aa3 je4
grandpa (paternal); the government; the country
- 頂爺ding2 je4
the boss of a triad gang [colloquial]
- 惡爺ok3 je1
bossy
- 財爺coi4 je4
common name for the Financial Secretary of Hong Kong government
- 佛爺fat6 je4
Buddha (term of respect for Sakyamuni 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼[Shi4 jia1 mou2 ni2])
- 仔爺zai2 je4
son and father
- 老天爺lou5 tin1 je4
God
- 契爺kai3 je4
(noun) a godfather; a sugar daddy
- 姑爺gu1 je4
son-in-law (used by wife's family)
- 大老爺daai6 lou5 je4
Great master, the eldest man in a big, rich family
- 王爺wong4 je4
prince
- 舅爺kau5 je4
father's maternal uncle
- 財神爺coi4 san4 je4
god of wealth
- 家爺gaa1 je4
(old) a term servants used to refer to their master