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Trad. 姑爺
- son-in-law (used by wife's family)
- uncle (husband of father's sister)
Trad. 爺們
- menfolk (collective term for men of different generations)
- husbands and their fathers etc
Trad. 大爺
- (coll.) father's older brother
- uncle
- term of respect for older man
Trad. 膀爺
- topless guy (man who, in a public place, is not wearing a shirt)
Trad. 佛爺
- Buddha (term of respect for Sakyamuni 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼[Shi4 jia1 mou2 ni2])
- His Holiness (refers to a Buddhist grandee)
- Buddha
- God
- emperor
- in late Qing court, refers exclusively to Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后[Ci2 xi3 tai4 hou4]
Trad. 太爺
- (respectful for) one's grandfather
- sb's father
- older people
- the head of the house (used by servants)
- a district magistrate
Trad. 老爺子
- my (your etc) old father
- polite appellation for an elderly male
Trad. 老爺嶺
- Chinese name for Sichote-Alin mountain range in Russia's Primorsky Krai around Vladivostok
Trad. 老爺爺
- (coll.) father's father's father
- paternal great-grandfather
Trad. 老佛爺
- title of respect for the queen mother or the emperor's father
- nickname for Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后[Ci2 xi3 tai4 hou4]
Trad. 教師爺
- master of martial arts, in former times often employed by a landlord to teach fighting skills and guard the house
- (fig.) sb who arrogantly and condescendingly lectures others
Trad. 七爺八爺
- term used in Taiwan for 黑白無常|黑白无常[Hei1 Bai2 Wu2 chang2]
Trad. 青天大老爺
- my lord (respectful form of address for an official or a magistrate in imperial China)
Trad. 求爺爺告奶奶
- lit. to beg grandpa and call on grandma (idiom)
- fig. to go about begging for help
Trad. 崽賣爺田不心疼
- lit. the child sells the father's farm without regret (idiom)
- fig. to sell one's inheritance without a second thought for how hard one's forebears worked for it
Trad. 老天爺餓不死瞎家雀
- lit. heaven won't let the sparrows go hungry (idiom)
- fig. don't give up hope
- if you tough it out, there will be light at the end of the tunnel