干老儿 / 乾老兒

gān​lǎo​r

godfather

informal term for a godfather or a foster father

干 (literal) → 干/乾 · gān · adoptive 老儿 (literal) → 老儿/老兒 · lǎo'er · old man

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

created sense May 20, 2026, 07:58 PM