爺
爺 — ya
Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).
- Korean reading
- 아비 야
- Romanization
- ya
- English
- father, grandfather
- Mandarin
- yé
- Japanese on'yomi
- ヤ
- Japanese kun'yomi
- じい じじい おやじ じじ ちち
- Japanese usage
- Not on either list
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 父 (88, 9 residual)
- Unicode
- U+723A
Parts that make up 爺
How 爺 was formed
Traditional analysis treats 爺 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 父, 耶.
Korean example words with 爺
- 노야老爺 Korean gloss: 남을 높여 이르는 말
- 호호야好好爺 Korean gloss: 인품이 아주 훌륭한 늙은이
- 노야묘老爺廟 Korean gloss: 중국 삼국 시대 촉한의 장수 관우의 영(靈)을 모시는 사당. 조선 시대에 서울에 동묘, 서묘, 남묘, 북묘가 있었다.
Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)
Japanese words with 爺
- 爺じじ old man; old geezer
- 爺さんじいさん grandfather; male senior-citizen
- 狸爺たぬきじじい cunning old man
- 糞爺くそじじい old man; old goat
- 爺やじいや elderly handyman; elderly manservant
- 老爺ろうや old man
- 好々爺こうこうや good-natured old man
- エロ爺エロじじい dirty old man; pervert; lecher
- 爺ちゃんじいちゃん grandfather; male senior-citizen
- 子泣き爺こなきじじい Konaki Jijii (a ghost in Japanese folklore with the shape of a small old man and having a baby's cry)
- 爺むさいじじむさい like an old man; doddering; wizened
- お爺ちゃんおじいちゃん grandpa; granddad
Other hanja read “야”
Other hanja with radical 父
Some glosses are machine-generated. Sources and licences are listed together — sources and licences