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老爷爷 (lǎo yé ye): meaning and stroke order

老爷爷 (lǎo yé ye) means (coll.) father's father's father, paternal great-grandfather.

老爷爷

Simplified
老爷爷
Traditional
老爺爺
Pinyin
lǎo yé ye

Stroke order of 老爷爷

老

  • lǎo prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity; old (of people)
  • 6 strokes

Stroke by stroke

爷

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

Stroke by stroke

爷

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

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 老爷爷

  1. lǎo yé ye Traditional 老爺爺
    • (coll.) father's father's father
    • paternal great-grandfather

Radicals of the characters

老
Radical 老 (Kangxi radical 125) · 6 strokes · 耂 on top, 匕 below
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.

老爷爷 in our stories

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  • 上车以后，他发现自己的座位上已经坐着一位老爷爷。

    shàng chē yǐhòu tā fāxiàn zìjǐ de zuòwèi shàng yǐjīng zuò zhe yí wèi lǎoyéye

    When he gets on, he finds an old man already sitting in his seat.

    From the story The train to Xi'an HSK 3

  • 接着，白骨精又变成找女儿的老太太、找家人的老爷爷，每一次都被悟空一棒打跑。

    jiēzhe Báigǔjīng yòu biànchéng zhǎo nǚ'ér de lǎo tàitai zhǎo jiārén de lǎoyéye měi yí cì dōu bèi Wùkōng yí bàng dǎ pǎo

    Next the demon became an old woman searching for her daughter, then an old man searching for his family, and each time Wukong drove her off with one blow.

    From the story Monkey strikes the White Bone Demon three times HSK 6

Stories using 老爷爷

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).