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爹爹

Mandarin · pinyin diē die

daddy
granddad

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爹: diē · father, daddy

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1–5 · die1 die5

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noun

(chiefly dialectal Mandarin, Pingxiang Gan, dialectal Hakka, Yixian Huizhou, dialectal Jin, Taiwanese Hokkien, Wu, Xiang, colloquial) daddy

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(dialectal Mandarin, dialectal Gan, dialectal Hakka, Northern Min, dialectal Wu, Xiang) paternal grandfather
(dialectal Mandarin, Xiang, polite) Term of address for an older male.

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