father

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
父 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

father

耶 sound component

  Sound component

ye

  

ye (sound)

Definitions

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father, grandfather; grandpa; old gentleman

Most common words with 爺
Freq.
Word
Meaning

爷爷

(coll.) father's father

grandpa

老天爷

God

大爷

uncle

少爷

son of the boss

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 17.4596% of movies

1048th most common character in movies

1007th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

Unicode

U+723A


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