爺

爺 (Kangxi radical 88, 父+9, 13 strokes, cangjie input 金大尸十中 (CKSJL), four-corner 8012₇, composition ⿱父耶)

• 𰂴(𫢜)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 690, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19734
• Dae Jaweon: page 1103, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 2040, character 7
• Unihan data for U+723A

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *laː) : semantic 父 (“father”) + phonetic 耶 (OC *laː).

Vovin and McCraw (2011) compare it to Old Turkic [script needed] (uya, “relative”).

爺

1. (literary, dialectal or in compounds) father

   爺娘／爷娘  ―  yéniáng  ―  father and mother

   兩仔爺／两仔爷 [Cantonese]  ―  loeng⁵ zai² je⁴ [Jyutping]  ―  father and son

   • 阿爺無大兒，木蘭無長兄。願為市鞍馬，從此替爺征。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     阿爷无大儿，木兰无长兄。愿为市鞍马，从此替爷征。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 《木蘭詩》; translation by Jack Yuan

     Āyé wú dà ér, mùlán wú chángxiōng. Yuàn wèi shì ānmǎ, cóngcǐ tì yé zhēng. [Pinyin]

     My father has no grown-up son, and I (Mulan) have no elder brother. I'm willing to buy a horse and saddle, to go to battle in my father's place.

2. grandfather
3. (polite) grandpa; sir (term of address for an elderly man)
4. (archaic, honorific) sir (term of address for a rich or influential man)
5. (honorific) term of address for gods and the Buddha
6. (colloquial, derogatory or familiar, Northern China, male) I; me

• (I): 老子 (lǎozi), (Hokkien) 恁爸 (lín-pē)

• 婆 (pó)

• 祖父

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. old man
2. grandfather

• Go-on: や (ya)
• Kan-on: や (ya)
• Kun: じい (jī, 爺)^{←ぢい (dii, 爺, historical)}; じじ (jiji, 爺)^{←ぢぢ (didi, 爺, historical)}; じじい (jijī, 爺)^{←ぢぢい (didii, 爺, historical)}