爺

爺 (radical 88, 父+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 金大尸十中 (CKSJL), four-corner 8012₇, composition ⿱父耶)

• KangXi: page 690, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19734
• Dae Jaweon: page 1103, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2040, character 7
• Unihan data for U+723A

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *laː) : semantic 父 (“father”) + phonetic 耶 (OC *laː).

爺

1. (literary or dialectal) father

   阿爺無大兒，木蘭無長兄。願為市鞍馬，從此替爺征。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
   阿爷无大儿，木兰无长兄。愿为市鞍马，从此替爷征。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

   From: 《木蘭詩》; translation by Jack Yuan

   Āyé wú dà ér, mùlán wú cháng xiōng. Yuàn wèi shì ān mǎ, cóngcǐ tì yé zhēng. [Pinyin]

   My father has no grown-up son, and I (Mulan) have no elder brother. I'm willing to buy a horse and saddle, to go to battle in my father's place.

2. grandfather
3. (polite) grandpa (term of address for an elderly man)
4. (historical, honorific) sir
5. (honorific) term of address for gods and the Buddha
6. (colloquial, derogatory or familiar, Northern China, male) I; me

   Synonyms: 老子 (Lǎozǐ), 恁爸 (lín-pē) (Min Nan)

• 婆 (pó)

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. old man
2. grandfather

• Go-on: や (ya)
• Kan-on: や (ya)
• Kun: じい (jī, 爺)^{←ぢい (dī, historical)}; じじ (jiji, 爺)^{←ぢぢ (didi, historical)}; じじい (jijī, 爺)^{←ぢぢい (didī, historical)}

• 祖父

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) じ​い [jíꜜì] (Atamadaka – [1])
  • IPA^(key): [d͡ʑiː]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) じ​じ [jíꜜjì] (Atamadaka – [1])
  • IPA^(key): [d͡ʑiʑi]

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) じじ​い [jìjíꜜì] (Nakadaka – [2])
  • IPA^(key): [d͡ʑiʑiː]

爺 (hiragana じい, rōmaji jī, historical hiragana ぢい)

1. a grandfather

   （お）爺 (じい)さん

   (o) jī-san

   grandfather

   （お）爺 (じい)ちゃん

   (o) jī-chan

   grandpa; granddad

爺 (hiragana じい, rōmaji jī, historical hiragana ぢい)
(alternative reading hiragana じじ, romaji jiji, historical hiragana ぢぢ)
(alternative reading hiragana じじい, romaji jijī, historical hiragana ぢぢい)

1. an old man; a geezer; a gramps

   （お）爺 (じい)ちゃん

   (o) jī-chan

   mister

   • 1990 June 25 [Feb 17 1990], Morikawa, George, “Roundラウンド ５　1965年ねんのアッパーカット [Round 5: 1965’s Uppercut]”, in はじめの一いっ歩ぽ THE FIGHTING! [The First Step: THE FIGHTING!], volume 1 (fiction), 3rd edition, Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN, page 131:

     バカヤロオ　会 (じ)長 (じい)の歳 (とし)　考 (かんが)えろ　心 (しん)臓 (ぞう)止 (と)まっちまうだろうが‼

     Bakayarō jijī no toshi kangaero shinzō tomatchimau darō ga‼

     You idiot‼ Think about gramps’s age‼ His heart coulda stopped‼

     うわぁ　すいません

     Uwā suimasen

     Oww! I’m sorry!

• 婆 (ばば) (baba)

爺 • (ya)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 야 (revised: ya, McCune–Reischauer: ya, Yale: ya)
  • Name (hangeul): 아비

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爺 (gia)

1. Hán tự form of gia.