Text matches for “爷”

airline steward (abbr. for 空中少爺|空中少爷[kōng zhōng shào ye])

(coll.) paternal grandfather / grandpa

God / Heavens

son of the boss / young master of the house / your son (honorific)

arrogant idler / self-centered show-off

(respectful) lord / master / (coll.) maternal grandfather

grandpa / old gentleman

my (your etc) old father / polite appellation for an elderly male

(polite) elderly man

menfolk (collective term for men of different generations) / husbands and their fathers etc

classic car

(coll.) mother's father / maternal grandfather

big talker

(coll.) a profiteer / (business) wheeler-dealer

(respectful for) one's grandfather / sb's father / older people / the head of the house (used by servants) / a district magistrate

(coll.) father's father's father / paternal great-grandfather

son-in-law (used by wife's family) / uncle (husband of father's sister)

nickname for official

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

(historical) privately hired legal or administrative advisor to a government official / teacher's teacher (in academic lineage)

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

(coll.) father and his child

prince / marquis / nobleman

founder (of a craft, religious sect etc)

airline steward

uncle / grandpa / CL:位[wèi]

lit. heaven won't let the sparrows go hungry (idiom) / fig. don't give up hope / if you tough it out, there will be light at the end of the tunnel

elderly gentleman (respectful) / esteemed father

topless guy (man who, in a public place, is not wearing a shirt)

father's maternal uncle / granduncle

god of wealth / very wealthy man

my lord (respectful form of address for an official or a magistrate in imperial China)

term used in Taiwan for 黑白無常|黑白无常[Hēi Bái Wú cháng]

(dialect) father's older brother / uncle

Buddha (term of respect for Sakyamuni 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼[Shì jiā móu ní]) / His Holiness (refers to a Buddhist grandee) / Buddha / God / emperor / in late Qing court, refers exclusively to Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后[Cí xǐ tài hòu]

(dialect) maternal grandfather

(old) a term servants used to refer to their master

Zaoshen, the god of the kitchen / also written 灶神