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大爷 (dà yé): meaning and stroke order

大爷 (dà yé) means arrogant idler, self-centered show-off, (coll.) father's older brother, uncle.

大爷

Simplified
大爷
Traditional
大爺
Pinyin
dà yé · dà ye

Stroke order of 大爷

大

  • dà big; large; great; older (than another person)
  • dài see 大夫[dai4 fu5]
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

爷

  • yé grandpa; old gentleman
  • 6 strokes
  • Traditional form: 爺

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 大爷

  1. dà yé Traditional 大爺
    • arrogant idler
    • self-centered show-off
  2. dà ye Traditional 大爺
    • (coll.) father's older brother
    • uncle
    • term of respect for older man

Radicals of the characters

大
Radical 大 (Kangxi radical 37) · 3 strokes · built from 一 and 人
爷
Radical 父 (Kangxi radical 88) · 6 strokes · 父 on top, 卩 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

大爷 in our stories

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  • 她半信半疑地把速度降到了每公里七分钟，慢得连旁边遛狗的大爷都能跟上。

    tā bànxìnbànyí de bǎ sùdù jiàng dào le měi gōnglǐ qī fēnzhōng màn de lián pángbiān liùgǒu de dàye dōu néng gēn shàng

    Half doubting, she dropped her pace to seven minutes a kilometre—so slow that even an old man walking his dog beside her could keep up.

    From the story The four-hour balloon HSK 7–9 · Level 9

  • 坐在对面的郝大爷一下子站了起来，手里的茶杯直晃：“砍树？除非先把我砍了！”

    zuò zài duìmiàn de Hǎo dàye yíxiàzi zhàn le qǐlai shǒu lǐ de chábēi zhí huàng kǎn shù chúfēi xiān bǎ wǒ kǎn le

    Old Mr Hao, sitting opposite, leapt to his feet, the teacup shaking in his hand: "Cut the tree? Over my dead body!"

    From the story The persimmon tree over the wall HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 大爷

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).