tài​yé

elderly man

太爷 (太爺) tài​yé
elderly man
a respectful way to address or refer to an older person
grandfather
a respectful term for one's grandfather or another's father
magistrate
a respectful or informal title for a district magistrate in imperial China
master noun
the head of the house, as addressed by servants in a traditional household

Frequency

Written text
0.462 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)