乾爺

Chinese

		dry; clean; male dry; clean; male; strong; one of the Eight Trigrams; surname	grandpa; etc.; old gentleman
trad. (乾爺)		乾	爺
simp. (干爷)		干	爷

Pronunciation

• Gan (Wiktionary): gon¹ ia⁴
• Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ¹koe-ya₂ / ¹kaen-yi₂
• Xiang (Hengyang, Wiktionary): gan¹ ia²

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• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: gon¹ ia⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɵn⁴² ia³⁵/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Suzhou)
    • Wugniu: ¹koe-ya₂
    • MiniDict: koe^平 ya^平
    • Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /kø⁴⁴ ɦiɑ/
  • (Northern: Hangzhou)
    • Wugniu: ¹kaen-yi₂
    • MiniDict: kaen^平 yi^平
    • Sinological IPA (Hangzhou): /kẽ̞³³ ɦi³⁴/
• Xiang
  • (Hengyang)
    • Wiktionary: gan¹ ia²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kan⁴⁴⁵ i̯ä¹¹/

Noun

乾爺

1. (Gan, Suzhounese, Hangzhounese, Hengyang Xiang) godfather; (nominally) adoptive father

Synonyms

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		乾爸, 乾爹, 義父
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	乾爸爸, 乾爹
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	乾爸
	Xi'an	乾爸
	Xuzhou	乾爺, 乾爹
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	乾爹
Southwestern Mandarin	Guiyang	乾爹
	Liuzhou	乾爹, 契爺
Cantonese	Guangzhou	契爺
	Hong Kong	契爺
	Dongguan	契爺
Gan	Nanchang	乾爺
	Lichuan	契爺
Hakka	Meixian	契爺
Northern Min	Jian'ou	老爹
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	義郎爸
Southern Min	Xiamen	契爸
	Quanzhou	契爸
	Jinjiang	契爸
	Zhangzhou	契爸
	Manila (Hokkien)	契爸
	Jieyang	契爸
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	契爺
Wu	Suzhou	乾爺
	Hangzhou	乾爺
Xiang	Hengyang	乾爺

Dialectal synonyms of 乾爸 (“godfather; (nominally) adoptive father”) [map]