老爷 lǎoye master Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 老爷 老爺 lǎoye master (old-fashioned) a respectful title for a government official, a powerful person, or a landlord; also used by servants to address their male employer pompous official (ironic) a leader who acts superior and is out of touch with the people maternal grandfather (colloquial) a term for one's mother's father, equivalent to 姥爷 lǎoye (bound form) old-fashioned (bound form) used to describe something outdated or obsolete, such as an old car or old-fashioned machinery husband (old-fashioned) a respectful form of address used by a wife for her husband juren (historical) a respectful title for a person who passed the provincial level imperial examination (juren) Frequency Movie subtitles 2.80 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 8.00 per million Cross-References Classifier 位 wèiSame as 姥爷 lǎoye Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
老爷 老爺 lǎoye master (old-fashioned) a respectful title for a government official, a powerful person, or a landlord; also used by servants to address their male employer pompous official (ironic) a leader who acts superior and is out of touch with the people maternal grandfather (colloquial) a term for one's mother's father, equivalent to 姥爷 lǎoye (bound form) old-fashioned (bound form) used to describe something outdated or obsolete, such as an old car or old-fashioned machinery husband (old-fashioned) a respectful form of address used by a wife for her husband juren (historical) a respectful title for a person who passed the provincial level imperial examination (juren) Frequency Movie subtitles 2.80 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 8.00 per million Cross-References Classifier 位 wèiSame as 姥爷 lǎoye Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
