爷
yé HSK1

father

爷 爺 yé
grandfather noun
(bound form) grandfather; a way to address male relatives of the same generation as one's grandfather, such as 姥爷 lǎo​ye or 舅爷 jiù​yé
sir noun
(bound form) a polite form of address for an older man or a man of a father's generation; in former times, a title for a master or social superior, as in 老爷 lǎo​ye or 少爷 shào​ye
deity noun
(bound form) a title of respect for a god or Buddha, such as 老天爷 lǎo​tiān​yé or 财神爷 cái​shén​yé
father
(literary, bound form) father; used in the term 爷娘 yé​niáng

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,007th most common 159.8 per million
Movie subtitles
1,048th most common 95.2 per million appears in 17% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
2.68 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
43.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Traditional
爺
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+7237

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)