guān​lǎo​ye

official

  • created reference approved 官老爷/官老爺 → 个/個 (classifier) — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    官老爷 / 官老爺 guān​lǎo​ye

    个 / 個 gè

    classifier

    Changed: source (simp), source (trad), source pinyin, target (simp), target (trad), target pinyin, type

    created reference

  • created sense approved 官老爷/官老爺 · guān​lǎo​ye · official — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    官老爷 / 官老爺

    guān​lǎo​ye

    official

    An old-fashioned term of address for a bureaucrat; often used sarcastically to describe a haughty or high-and-mighty official.

    guān​lǎo​yé

    官 (literal) → 官 · guān · official 老爷 (literal) → 老爷/老爺 · lǎo​ye · pompous official

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense