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老爷

lǎoye

(respectful) lord

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

(respectful) lord

02

master

03

(coll.) maternal grandfather

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 老爷 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 老爷 appears in 2 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

四老爷土星明亮,不日该有加官晋爵之喜。sì lǎo yé tǔ xīng míng liàng, bù rì gāi yǒu jiā guān jìn jué zhī xǐ。

No published English translation for this sentence.

我听见你替你老爷说媒来了。你倒也三从四德的,只是这贤惠也太过了。wǒ tīng jiàn nǐ tì nǐ lǎo yé shuō méi lái le。 nǐ dào yě sān cóng sì dé de, zhǐ shì zhè xián huì yě tài guò le。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 老爷.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 老爷.

Directly before

  • 四老爷1
  • 你老爷1

Directly after

  • 老爷土星1
  • 老爷说媒1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 老爷

What does 老爷 mean in Chinese?

老爷 (lǎoye) means (respectful) lord.

How do you pronounce 老爷?

老爷 is pronounced lǎoye.

Is 老爷 an HSK word?

老爷 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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