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爹

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

dad

HSK 7

Human →Relations →Family

diē

タ

Phonosemantic compound. 父 represents the meaning and 多 represents the sound.

Components

父 father+ 多 many =

爹 dad

父 Meaning component

fù father

多 Phonetic component

duō many

much, many

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Notes

Similar Characters

布 cloth 斧 axe 釜 pot 爷 grandfather (simp)爸 papa 爺 grandfather (trad)侈 luxurious 够 adequate (simp)夠 enough (trad)夥 partnership (trad)奓 extravagant (iii)哆 shiver 眵 eyes diseased and dim 移 shift 黟 black and shining

Chinese

爹 [diē]

dad

Example Sentences

CHINESE WORDS (14)

老爹 [lǎodiē] #3,635

(dialect) father

爹地 [diēdì] #6,816

daddy (loanword)

爹爹 [diēdie] #23,152

爹娘 [diēniáng] #33,835

(dialect) parents

干爹 [gāndiē] #39,690

adoptive father (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)

干爹 [gāndiē] #39,690

adoptive father (traditional adoption, i.e. without legal ramifications)

阿爹 [ādiē] #36,725

公爹 [gōngdiē] #55,951

husband's father

姑爹 [gūdiē] #58,364

husband of father's sister

坑爹 [kēngdiē]

(Internet slang) dishonest

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