yé

爷

grandfather, old man

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我的家HSK 3.0 · Lesson 3 · My Family vocab

Words with 爷

爷爷 yé ye (coll.) father's father; paternal grandfather HSK 1
大爷 dà yé arrogant idler; self-centered show-off HSK 4
姥爷 lǎo ye maternal grandfather (dialectal) HSK 7–9

Examples from your lessons

  • 我爷爷和奶奶都是老师。 My grandpa and grandma are both teachers. Lesson 103
  • 我家有五口人：爷爷、奶奶、爸爸、妈妈和我。 Five: Grandpa, Grandma, Dad, Mom and me. Lesson 103
  • 爷爷、奶奶、爸爸、妈妈、妹妹和我。 Grandpa, Grandma, Dad, Mom, my younger sister and me. 我家有六口人

Character facts

Radical
父 father, dad
Parts
父 + 卩
Structure
Top–bottom
Unicode
U+7237

Pictophonetic: father

Same radical 父
bà 爸 diē 爹
Same sound
yě 也 yè 页 yè 夜 yě 野 yè 业